| 2018-03-26 16:02:22 |
Balint Reczey |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2018-03-26 16:23:36 |
Balint Reczey |
description |
Empty directories can't be stored in Git, which is a very popular version control system for maintaining source packages.
Keeping the empty directory in the source package prevent others from easily contributing to the package by importing it in full to a local repository, making changes, then generating an updated source package with tools like git-buildpackage. In that workflow the empty directory would be lost potentially causing errors if the installed binary package relied on it or causing autopkgtest failures if tests used it. |
[Impact]
Empty directories can't be stored in Git, which is a very popular version control system for maintaining source packages.
Keeping the empty directory in the source package prevent others from easily contributing to the package by importing it in full to a local repository, making changes, then generating an updated source package with tools like git-buildpackage. In that workflow the empty directory would be lost potentially causing errors if the installed binary package relied on it or causing autopkgtest failures if tests used it.
The backport to a stable release helps further maintenance of the package in git-based workflows and avoids accidentally breaking autopkgtests when the existence of the empty dirs matter.
The upload may drop the empty dirs or place placeholder (e.g.: */.keep) files in the source package.
[Test Case]
Extract the source package, then run the following command int the extracted source directory:
find . -depth -type d -empty
[Regression Potential]
The removed directories or the added placeholders may cause run-time issues or cause autopkgtest failures. To prevent those please check that the placeholder files are not shipped in the binary packages and also run autokgtests. |
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| 2018-03-26 16:24:21 |
Balint Reczey |
update-manager (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Fix Released |
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| 2018-03-28 12:00:32 |
Chris J Arges |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Xenial |
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| 2018-03-28 12:00:32 |
Chris J Arges |
bug task added |
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update-manager (Ubuntu Xenial) |
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| 2018-03-29 16:52:33 |
Brian Murray |
update-manager (Ubuntu Artful): status |
New |
Fix Committed |
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| 2018-03-29 16:52:34 |
Brian Murray |
bug |
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added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
| 2018-03-29 16:52:36 |
Brian Murray |
bug |
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added subscriber SRU Verification |
| 2018-03-29 16:52:39 |
Brian Murray |
tags |
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verification-needed verification-needed-artful |
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| 2018-03-29 16:54:34 |
Brian Murray |
update-manager (Ubuntu Xenial): status |
New |
Fix Committed |
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| 2018-03-29 16:54:39 |
Brian Murray |
tags |
verification-needed verification-needed-artful |
verification-needed verification-needed-artful verification-needed-xenial |
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| 2018-03-30 12:25:14 |
Francis Ginther |
tags |
verification-needed verification-needed-artful verification-needed-xenial |
id-5a94fc9b1ac2712c9fbd12fd verification-needed verification-needed-artful verification-needed-xenial |
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| 2018-05-14 09:54:08 |
Balint Reczey |
tags |
id-5a94fc9b1ac2712c9fbd12fd verification-needed verification-needed-artful verification-needed-xenial |
id-5a94fc9b1ac2712c9fbd12fd verification-done verification-done-artful verification-done-xenial |
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| 2018-05-16 23:58:39 |
Launchpad Janitor |
update-manager (Ubuntu Xenial): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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| 2018-05-16 23:58:55 |
Brian Murray |
removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
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| 2018-05-16 23:59:14 |
Launchpad Janitor |
update-manager (Ubuntu Artful): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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| 2018-06-05 12:59:36 |
Balint Reczey |
description |
[Impact]
Empty directories can't be stored in Git, which is a very popular version control system for maintaining source packages.
Keeping the empty directory in the source package prevent others from easily contributing to the package by importing it in full to a local repository, making changes, then generating an updated source package with tools like git-buildpackage. In that workflow the empty directory would be lost potentially causing errors if the installed binary package relied on it or causing autopkgtest failures if tests used it.
The backport to a stable release helps further maintenance of the package in git-based workflows and avoids accidentally breaking autopkgtests when the existence of the empty dirs matter.
The upload may drop the empty dirs or place placeholder (e.g.: */.keep) files in the source package.
[Test Case]
Extract the source package, then run the following command int the extracted source directory:
find . -depth -type d -empty
[Regression Potential]
The removed directories or the added placeholders may cause run-time issues or cause autopkgtest failures. To prevent those please check that the placeholder files are not shipped in the binary packages and also run autokgtests. |
[Impact]
Empty directories can't be stored in Git, which is a very popular version control system for maintaining source packages.
Keeping the empty directory in the source package prevents others from easily contributing to the package by importing it in full to a local repository, making changes, then generating an updated source package with tools like git-buildpackage. In that workflow the empty directory would be lost potentially causing errors if the installed binary package relied on it or causing autopkgtest failures if tests used it.
The backport to a stable release helps further maintenance of the package in git-based workflows and avoids accidentally breaking autopkgtests when the existence of the empty dirs matter.
The upload may drop the empty dirs or place placeholder (e.g.: */.keep) files in the source package.
[Test Case]
Extract the source package, then run the following command int the extracted source directory:
find . -depth -type d -empty
[Regression Potential]
The removed directories or the added placeholders may cause run-time issues or cause autopkgtest failures. To prevent those please check that the placeholder files are not shipped in the binary packages and also run autokgtests. |
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| 2023-11-22 15:44:26 |
Ubuntu Archive Robot |
bug |
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added subscriber Sebastien Bacher |
| 2023-11-22 16:19:48 |
Sebastien Bacher |
removed subscriber Sebastien Bacher |
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