bzr-builddeb: FTBFS: PristineTarError: There was an error using pristine-tar: Generating delta from tar failed

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/655463:

Package: src:bzr-builddeb
Severity: serious
Version: 2.8.0
Tags: wheezy,sid

During a rebuild of Sid, package bzr-builddeb FTBFS.

Tail of logs:
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130.193 export version <WorkingTree6 of
/tmp/testbzr-ShUXWo.tmp/bzrlib.plugins.builddeb.tests.test_import_dsc.DistributionBranchTests.test_import_upstream_with_lzma_tarball/work/unstable-upstream>
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Text attachment: traceback
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testtools/runtest.py", line
169, in _run_user
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testtools/testcase.py", line
540, in _run_test_method
    return self._get_test_method()()
  File "/tmp/buildd/bzr-builddeb-2.8.0/tests/test_import_dsc.py", line
978, in test_import_upstream_with_lzma_tarball
    {}, upstream_tarballs=[(os.path.abspath(tar_path), None, self.fake_md5_1)])
  File "/tmp/buildd/bzr-builddeb-2.8.0/import_dsc.py", line 874, in
import_upstream
    exclude=exclude)
  File "/tmp/buildd/bzr-builddeb-2.8.0/upstream/pristinetar.py", line
190, in import_component_tarball
    exclude=exclude)
  File "/tmp/buildd/bzr-builddeb-2.8.0/upstream/pristinetar.py", line
404, in make_pristine_tar_delta
    return make_pristine_tar_delta(dest, tarball_path)
  File "/tmp/buildd/bzr-builddeb-2.8.0/upstream/pristinetar.py", line
110, in make_pristine_tar_delta
    raise PristineTarError("Generating delta from tar failed: %s" % stderr)
PristineTarError: There was an error using pristine-tar: Generating
delta from tar failed: xdelta: warning: no matches found in from file,
patch will apply without it
error: excessively large binary delta for
/tmp/testbzr-ShUXWo.tmp/bzrlib.plugins.builddeb.tests.test_import_dsc.DistributionBranchTests.test_import_upstream_with_lzma_tarball/work/package_0.1.orig.tar.xz
(Probably the tarball is compressed with an unsupported form of compression.)
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Ran 505 tests in 236.123s

FAILED (errors=1)
Missing feature '_UnicodeFilenameFeature' skipped 1 tests.
Missing feature 'bzr-svn plugin' skipped 3 tests.
make: *** [build-python2.7] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
E: Failed autobuilding of package
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The rebuild was done on an amd64 machine in clean Sid chroot.

--
Regards,
Aron Xu

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Regards,
Aron Xu

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This is happening because newer versions of pristine-tar error out if the delta is too big.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bzr-builddeb - 2.8.1

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bzr-builddeb (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New revision specifier 'upstream:'. LP: #905728
  * Imports are now deferred in command definitions, to speed up
    commands like 'bzr bash-completion'. LP: #903650
  * Provide merge-package functionality as a hook for 'bzr merge'.
    LP: #486075, LP: #910900
  * Add pre-commit hook that warns about applied quilt patches, and can
    automatically unapply/apply all quilt patches. LP: #608670
  * Automatically unapply patches before merge operations.
    LP: #815854
  * Include full changelog paths that were checked in error message.
    LP: #811459
  * Cope with unicode strings being specified to TarfileSource. Based on
    patch by Gediminas Paulauskas. LP: #911262
  * Automatically apply patches for 3.0 (quilt) packages in 'bzr bd-do'
    and 'bzr bd'. LP: #616791
  * Switch to source format '3.0 (native)'.
  * Skip import tests for .tar.xz if not supported by pristine-tar.
    Closes: #655463, LP: #917112

 -- Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:24:21 +0100