Debian bug report logs - #1532, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1532: no revision number with repair
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Package: repair
Version: 0.1-1 (last "1" by hand)
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Repair doesn't give debian revision

Repair seems to be searching in the file /var/lib/dpkg/available to
find some info about the specific package. It however never seems to
find the debian revision number. I took a quick look in the script and
it seems to search for a sequence "package_revision". In the
/var/lib/dpkg/available the keyword "revision" is used. In the control
file of a package the keyword "package_revision" (case insensitive)
should be used. Some inconsequence is spotted here. Perhaps this is a
bug? in dpkg.

Example:

$ dpkg --status repair
Package: repair
Status: install ok installed
Maintainer: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
Version: 0.1
Revision: 1
===========
Conffiles:
 /etc/repair.conf 1e16d01eb63e9955ba61692321457a20
Description: Report bugs in Debian
 Repair asks users to describe problems encountered and submits bug
 reports either to a local administrator or to the debian-bugs
 submission address.

$ dpkg --info /root/debian/repair.deb
 old debian package, version 0.939000.
 size 6709 bytes: control archive= 1149, main archive= 5546.
    1655 bytes,    75 lines   *  bug                  #!/usr/bin/perl
      17 bytes,     1 lines      conffiles
     290 bytes,     8 lines      control
 Package: repair
 Version: 0.1
 Package_Revision: 1
====================
 Maintainer: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
 Description: Report bugs in Debian
  Repair asks users to describe problems encountered and submits bug
  reports either to a local administrator or to the debian-bugs
  submission address.

The next few lines are found in /var/lib/dpkg/available
Package: repair
Maintainer: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
Version: 0.1
Revision: 1
===========
Description: Report bugs in Debian
 Repair asks users to describe problems encountered and submits bug
 reports either to a local administrator or to the debian-bugs
 submission address.

Erick

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl>
Subject: Bug#1532: Acknowledgement (was: no revision number with repair)
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Subject: Bug#1532: no revision number with repair
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From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
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Erick Branderhorst writes:

>Repair seems to be searching in the file /var/lib/dpkg/available to
>find some info about the specific package. It however never seems to
>find the debian revision number. I took a quick look in the script
>and it seems to search for a sequence "package_revision". In the
>/var/lib/dpkg/available the keyword "revision" is used. In the
>control file of a package the keyword "package_revision" (case
>insensitive) should be used. Some inconsequence is spotted
>here. Perhaps this is a bug? in dpkg.

The next version of repair, which isn't quite ready yet, calls dpkg to
find information about the package rather than make assumptions about
the format of internal databases; I'll check that it looks for the
right field name tonight.

There are one or two other things that need to be resolved before I
upload it.

Thanks for taking the time to have a look at it!

--
Richard Kettlewell  richard@uk.geeks.org  http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
Subject: Bug#1532: Info received (was Bug#1532: no revision number with repair)
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