Apport

Apport fails to retrace XZ-compressed packages

Bug #1061856 reported by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff on 2012-10-04

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Apport	Fix Released	High	Evan

Bug Description

Apport from trunk, as of revision 2509, suddenly started to fail retracing XZ-compressed packages with the error:

debian.debfile.DebError: missing required part in given .deb (expected one of: ['data.tar.gz', 'data.tar.bz2', 'data.tar.lzma'])
10/04/12 23:45:34: retracing #1061825 failed with status: 1

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote on 2012-10-04:

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2012-10-04:

Presumably this is from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/2509 . Evan, can you please have a look? I guess the best option would be to teach python-debian about xz compression? But a fallback for xz might be nice as we want to run retracers on precise.