patch rejected during unpack

[Dave Gilbert]

It looks like there is a bad patch in the source package, or at least a disagreement with the tar; it's leaving a .rej :

apt-get source binutils-multiarch
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Picking 'binutils' as source package instead of 'binutils-multiarch'
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Please use:
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to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Need to get 25.3 MB of source archives.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main binutils 2.22.52.20120713-0ubuntu1 (dsc) [2,030 B]
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main binutils 2.22.52.20120713-0ubuntu1 (tar) [25.2 MB]
Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main binutils 2.22.52.20120713-0ubuntu1 (diff) [142 kB]
Fetched 25.3 MB in 21s (1,179 kB/s)
gpgv: Signature made Sat 14 Jul 2012 00:12:13 BST using DSA key ID 0F932C9C
gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./binutils_2.22.52.20120713-0ubuntu1.dsc
dpkg-source: info: extracting binutils in binutils-2.22.52.20120713
dpkg-source: info: unpacking binutils_2.22.52.20120713.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying binutils_2.22.52.20120713-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
dpkg-source: info: upstream files that have been modified:
 binutils-2.22.52.20120713/bfd/elflink.c.rej

0996c2390e583003d6c9c1ffd569b799 binutils_2.22.52.20120713-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
1228fd7b4ab6d93b3ae57c2843c2671c binutils_2.22.52.20120713-0ubuntu1.dsc
7c9ff266ba91db1cef03fdd8a1c8f4b9 binutils_2.22.52.20120713.orig.tar.gz

more binutils-2.22.52.20120713/bfd/elflink.c.rej
--- bfd/elflink.c
+++ bfd/elflink.c
@@ -4712,6 +4712,7 @@
          asection *slook;
          bfd_vma vlook;
          long ilook;
+ int tlook;
          size_t i, j, idx;

          hlook = weaks;
@@ -4762,9 +4764,10 @@
            {
              h = sorted_sym_hash [i];

- /* Stop if value or section doesn't match. */
+ /* Stop if value, section or type doesn't match. */
              if (h->root.u.def.value != vlook
- || h->root.u.def.section != slook)
+ || h->root.u.def.section != slook
+ || h->type != tlook)
                break;
              else if (h != hlook)
                {

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: binutils-multiarch 2.22.52.20120713-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-5.5-generic 3.5.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 21 16:58:00 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120717)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: binutils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Confirmed, setting to Triaged/Medium, somehow the source package seems flaky.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in quantal with the builds from the 2.23 branch