Ubuntu repository servers have wrong version listed for 'pulseaudio' packages in 'Packages.(xz|gz)' files

[thermoman]

According to

  https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/pulseaudio

the latest version in xenial-updates for package

  pulseaudio

should be

  1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11
                 ^^
released, according to

  http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_8.0-0ubuntu3.11/changelog

on Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:16:22 +0800.

BUT when trying to update my system it shows most recent version as

  1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10
                 ^^

Trying to debug this I looked at the following files:

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.xz
  [..]

All of them contain the following info:

Package: pulseaudio
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10
[..]
Filename: pool/main/p/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_8.0-0ubuntu3.10_i386.deb
Size: 763228
MD5sum: f945ca01abdee42fe958d40babc8adf7
SHA1: 1e4028b773e95c9e439d55420152467bb9396d1f
SHA256: 0ca0e808e076f52173b8febf3a65465c1f6e1fbc24b26c03824e2eca11cccedb
[..]

I manage a lot of desktop PC running Ubuntu Xenial and some of them
have indeed version 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11 installed but their policy looks like
this at the moment:

% apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
  Installiert: 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11
  Installationskandidat: 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10 500
        500 http://debmirror.lan:9999/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1:8.0-0ubuntu3 500
        500 http://debmirror.lan:9999/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

I cleared the cache of our appox server, so that's not the issue here.

Looking in my logs from the PC with above output I see this in

  /var/log/apt/history.log:

Start-Date: 2019-12-12 06:05:19
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Install: libsnapd-glib1:amd64 (1.49-0ubuntu0.16.04.0, automatic)
Upgrade: libpulsedsp:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11), pulseaudio:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11), libpulse0:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11), libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11), pulseaudio-module-x11:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11), pulseaudio-module-bluetooth:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11), pulseaudio-utils:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11)
End-Date: 2019-12-12 06:05:24

So today there somehow was

  1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11

listed in Packages.gz/xz file and the PC did the upgrade from 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10 to 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11.

But right now the ubuntu repository servers list

  1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10

which is obvious not right.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+publishinghistory

Deleted Xenial updates main sound 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11

Removal requested 10 hours ago.
Deleted 10 hours ago by Sebastien Bacher
buggy SRU, pulls snapd due to the lib Recommends
Published on 2019-12-11

Current status (see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio ) is:

The Xenial Xerus(supported)
PulseAudio

 1:8.0-0ubuntu3 release(main) 2016-04-11
 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10 updates(main) 9 hours ago
 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.11 proposed(main) 2019-11-22