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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org