Import failures in main

[James Westby]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:29:57 -0400, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> With 228 failures and 29 bugs there is quite a skewed distribution, and
> the two bugs causing the most failures are:
> 
>   "Packages failing due to pristine-tar not being able to reconstruct
>   their tarball" - https://bugs.launchpad.net/udd/+bug/653301

I'd forgotten that I had already reported this and Joey fixed the likely
cause of at least most of them. We just need to get the deployed to
jubany now (possibly test beforehand to ensure that most are indeed
fixed, but I think it's highly likely as he was testing with some of our
examples)

> and
> 
>   "Import fails with missing referenced chk root keys" -
>   https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/udd/+bug/653307

Added some observations to this, but I'm unsure what bzr is telling us
here. Some help with interpreting that would be great.

I've also bumped the bug to critical as it looks like fairly widespread
repo corruption from an unknown source.

> The reason that the first is so high is that something seems to have
> changed recently that means that most of the KDE packages can no longer
> be handled by pristine tar.

I'm guessing the reason was either a switch to .bz2, or a change to the
machine on which the tarballs are generated, based on the Debian bug
logs.

> I then turned this in to an almost-live page at
> 
>   http://package-import.ubuntu.com/status/main.html
> 
> (up to 5 minutes behind the current action)

Now down to 195 failures.

Thanks,

James