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Package: dpkg-repack
Version: 1.43
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Playing around with dpkg-repack I noticed that even in the case of
packages where there is no modification that'd make it impossible,
dpkg-repack never generates perfect replicas of the original packages.
With the attached patch, dpkg-repack inspects the installed package's
changelog file for a suitable timestamp for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and sets
it if appropriate. With --tag=none, this gives byte-perfect replicas of
the packages I've tested it against unless they had local / config /
post-inst modifications.
I'd envision that a --tag=auto feature go well with that (that adds a
version tag if the md5sums indicate that the package changed), but
that's not implemented in the current patch and I don't know if the
md5sums criterion would be sufficient (eg. to see whether file ownership
was changed in postinst).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages dpkg-repack depends on:
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24
ii perl 5.26.0-5
dpkg-repack recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg-repack suggests:
ii fakeroot 1.21-3.1
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From 782b2e9c90fb6f9ab682bb91b179af46a72f605b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chrysn <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 17:38:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dpkg calls: Respond to error codes
Contributes-To: https://bugs.debian.org/870724
---
dpkg-repack | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dpkg-repack b/dpkg-repack
index 920f434..6f65499 100755
--- a/dpkg-repack
+++ b/dpkg-repack
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ sub Extract_Status {
my $inst = Dpkg::Control->new(type => CTRL_FILE_STATUS);
open my $fh, '-|', 'dpkg', "--root=$rootdir/", '-s', $pkgname
- or Die "Unable to locate $pkgname in the package list.";
+ or Die "Failed to fork dpkg.";
$inst->parse($fh, "dpkg status for $pkgname");
- close $fh;
+ close $fh or Die "`dpkg -s` failed (status " . ($? >> 8) . ").";
if ($inst->{Status} !~ m/^\S+\s+\S+\s+installed$/) {
Die "Package $pkgname not fully installed: $inst->{Status}";
@@ -184,12 +184,12 @@ sub Install_DEBIAN {
my @control_files;
open my $q_fh, '-|', "dpkg-query --admindir=$rootdir/var/lib/dpkg --control-path $inst->{Package} 2>/dev/null"
- or Die "dpkg-query failed: $!";
+ or Die "Failed to fork dpkg.";
while (my $fn = <$q_fh>) {
chomp $fn;
push @control_files, $fn;
}
- close $q_fh;
+ close $q_fh or Die "`dpkg-query` failed (status " . ($? >> 8) . ").";
foreach my $fn (@control_files) {
my ($basename) = $fn =~ m/^.*\.(.*?)$/;
@@ -233,7 +233,11 @@ sub Install_Files {
# it runs with English language output.
my $lc_all = $ENV{LC_ALL};
$ENV{LC_ALL} = 'C';
- my @filelist = split /\n/, qx{dpkg --root=$rootdir/ -L $inst->{Package}};
+ my $filelist = qx{dpkg --root=$rootdir/ -L $inst->{Package}:$inst->{Architecture}};
+ if ($? != 0) {
+ Die "`dpkg -L` failed (status " . ($? >> 8) . ").";
+ }
+ my @filelist = split /\n/, $filelist;
$ENV{LC_ALL} = $lc_all if defined $lc_all; # important to reset it.
# Set up a hash for easy lookups.
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Source: dpkg-repack
Source-Version: 1.55
Done: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dpkg-repack, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guillem Jover <[email protected]> (supplier of updated dpkg-repack package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Hash: SHA512
Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:27:42 +0200
Source: dpkg-repack
Architecture: source
Version: 1.55
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Closes: 870750
Changes:
dpkg-repack (1.55) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Rework --help output to list option descriptions on the next line.
* Infer the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH from the md5sums file. Closes: #870750
* Documentation:
- man: Mention that version tagging might invalidate dependencies.
- man: Use L<> instead of B<>(N) to refer to external man pages.
* Code internals:
- Switch to «use v5.40» instead of «use strict» and «use warnings».
- Switch to use sub signatures.
- Use try/catch instead of eval/or-do.
- Update copyright years.
* Packaging:
- Remove «Rules-Requires-Root: no», which is the current default.
- Remove «Priority: optional», which is the current default.
- Remove build dependency on debhelper (>= 13.10), implied by
debhelper-compat (= 13) since Debian bookworm.
- Remove versioned Build-Depends on dpkg-dev, satisfied since Debian
trixie.
- Switch to Standards-Version 4.7.4 (no changed needed).
- Refactor common description into a source stanza Description field.
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