Re: mentors.d.n weirdness when uploading for multiple suites

2021-08-29 Thread Sven Hartge

On 29.08.21 16:40, Baptiste Beauplat wrote:

On 2021/08/26 10:15 PM, Baptiste Beauplat wrote:

On 2021/08/26 02:41 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:



I noticed a little weirdness when uploading a package for multiple
suites, in my case for "bullseye-backports" and
"buster-backports-sloppy".


That should be fixed now. We changed the behavior of the repository so
files can be shared between uploads as long as they have the same
content (checksum).

You can upload two version sharing the same orig and it will work fine.

Note that, shared files have the same restriction as other files. If the
content changes, all uploads using the previous version of that file
will be removed from the repository to keep consistency. The dsc link
for removed repository files should not appear in the package page.


Very nice, thank you.

That will make it substantially more easy to upload backports or 
security updates if they share the same upstream version without needing 
to do them in a piecemeal fashion.


Grüße,
Sven.



Re: mentors.d.n weirdness when uploading for multiple suites

2021-08-29 Thread Baptiste Beauplat
Hi Sven,

On 2021/08/26 10:15 PM, Baptiste Beauplat wrote:
> On 2021/08/26 02:41 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> > I noticed a little weirdness when uploading a package for multiple
> > suites, in my case for "bullseye-backports" and
> > "buster-backports-sloppy".

That should be fixed now. We changed the behavior of the repository so
files can be shared between uploads as long as they have the same
content (checksum).

You can upload two version sharing the same orig and it will work fine.

Note that, shared files have the same restriction as other files. If the
content changes, all uploads using the previous version of that file
will be removed from the repository to keep consistency. The dsc link
for removed repository files should not appear in the package page.

Best,

-- 
Baptiste Beauplat - lyknode


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Re: mentors.d.n weirdness when uploading for multiple suites

2021-08-26 Thread Baptiste Beauplat
Hi Sven,

On 2021/08/26 02:41 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> I noticed a little weirdness when uploading a package for multiple
> suites, in my case for "bullseye-backports" and
> "buster-backports-sloppy".
> 
> Reference is https://mentors.debian.net/package/radsecproxy/
> 
> I uploaded version 1.9.0-1~bpo10+1 first and then 1.9.0-1~bpo11+1
> second.
> 
> The latter seems to have superseded the first, with the first still
> being in the interface but somehow only "half". For example the URL to
> the DSC does not work and the URL in the RFS template is only
> "https://mentors.debian.netNone;.
> 
> Simple fix is of course to just delete and reupload 1.9.0-1~bpo10+1 but
> I think I happen to stumble upon an edge-case bug in the mentors backend
> here.

That's definitively a bug cause by a corner case in mentors. Here is the
explanation:

Mentors differs from Debian official archive in which it allow
multiple upload of the same version+distribution, allowing people to
overwrite they upload until they are satisfied with it.

While mentors keeps track of each upload, the source repository simply
cannot store multiple version of the same file. Therefore before
installing the uploaded files to the repository any previous version of
a file will be uninstalled from it.

In theory, this shouldn't prevent people from retrieving sources package
from the repository of the same package, for two different
distributions and versions. For instance, uploading tmux/2.0-1 for
unstable and tmux/1.9-1+deb11u1 (let's say for a security fix) for
stable.  Both live in different distributions, without any files
overlapping and the repository is happy to serve both.

Your use case is specific in which there is a overlap of the orig.tar,
which both distributions use. Because of that, and even if the
distribution differs and the file has the same checksum, the repository
detected a new upload of the orig.tar and removed the previous upload
that was using it.

That's why the dsc of the first upload disappeared and the link doesn't
show up.

I'm not sure we can come up with a sound technical solution for this
issue, given that the repository replacing uploads is an actual feature.
I'll dig up the topic a little more to see if we can come up with
something.

I'll keep you posted.

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mentors.d.n weirdness when uploading for multiple suites

2021-08-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Hello .*,

I noticed a little weirdness when uploading a package for multiple
suites, in my case for "bullseye-backports" and
"buster-backports-sloppy".

Reference is https://mentors.debian.net/package/radsecproxy/

I uploaded version 1.9.0-1~bpo10+1 first and then 1.9.0-1~bpo11+1
second.

The latter seems to have superseded the first, with the first still
being in the interface but somehow only "half". For example the URL to
the DSC does not work and the URL in the RFS template is only
"https://mentors.debian.netNone;.

Simple fix is of course to just delete and reupload 1.9.0-1~bpo10+1 but
I think I happen to stumble upon an edge-case bug in the mentors backend
here.

Grüße,
Sven.

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