Dear shirish

I apologize; I should have written what follows some time ago.

Preface: if you run the command 'debdelta-upgrade' with the '-d' option
then, if any delta fails, the command will create some temporary files,
and print something like this

!!Faulty delta. Please send by email to mennu...@debian.org the following files:
!! /.../xul-ext-https-everywhere_1.1-1_1.2-1_al...deb
!! /tmp/xul-ext-https-everywhere_1.1-1_all.deb
!! /tmp/debdeltaE4lapBU

if you post a bug report, you should attach to your bug report those files.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:43:36AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> 
> (Faulty delta. Please consider retrying with the option "-d" ). ; P
> 61% packagekit_0.7.1-1_amd64.deb
>  Error: applying of delta for packagekit failed:  : new deb size is
> 863668 instead of 807092 (non retriable)

The message is misleading (my fault).

If a delta fails, then debdelta-upgrade will download the corresponding .deb
(see the option '--deb-policy' in the man page for more details).

So if you issue 'debdelta-upgrade -d' after the failure , nothing will happen.

There are three ways out of this:
 1) always use the '-d' option
 2) always use the option '--deb-policy s,b' so that debdelta-upgrade will
    not download the deb in case of failure; if any fails, 
    use 'debdelta-upgrade -d' 
 3) as a last resort, if you did not do the above, and you wish to
    send a bugreport, please manually delete the downloaded deb, e.g.
    # rm /var/cache/apt/archives/that-deb-that-failed_0.0-0_amd64.deb
    and run  'debdelta-upgrade -d' : it will retry and , upon failure,
    generate the log files that you may send me.
 
> The debdelta-upgrade is an alias with 'debdelta-upgrade -d' so by
> default it retries.

You may have got the alias wrong. The above message is printed when the '-d'
option is not present. Somehow your alias is not working OK.
Try typing 'alias' in the shell and see if it is there (I guess no).

a.




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