Launchpad itself

PPA builders performing normal Ubuntu binary mangling

Bug #136399 reported by William Grant
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Adam Conrad

Bug Description

Looking in build logs for my first production PPA build reveals some rather unwanted things being done:

  pkgstriptranslations: preparing translation tarball soundconverter_0.9.7-0ubuntu1~ppa1_i386_translations.tar.gz...done (21 files)
  pkgmaintainermangler: Maintainer field overridden to "Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>"

Stripping the translations is just going to publish them to /dev/null, and overriding the maintainer (particularly when everything defaults to being in main) is going to direct mail to bad places.
Please remove the pkg{striptranslations,binarymangler} packages from the PPA builder chroots.

Tags: lp-soyuz motu ppa
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LaserJock (laserjock) wrote :

It's also interesting that it's setting the Maintainer field to core-dev. I'm pretty sure that Core Devs don't want to be listed as maintainer for PPA uploads.

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

indeed, MOTU ML is already getting mails about bugs in PPA packages for universe..

Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in soyuz:
importance: Undecided → High
Tom Haddon (mthaddon)
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → mthaddon
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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

Rather than removing the mangling entirely, it'd probably be a better idea to just mangle the Maintainer to the owner of the PPA, though I'm not sure how that would work with users that have hidden their email addresses, or teams without a contact address set.

Christian Reis (kiko)
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: mthaddon → infinity
assignee: infinity → adconrad
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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

Fixing this on the client-side is dependent on the server-side code rollout that's happening today. Once that's done, I need to make some python, perl, and shell changes on the client side to glue it all together, and this should get fixed in the process.

Joey Stanford (joey)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.1.10 → 1.1.11
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André Klitzing (misery) wrote :

since my packages misses some translation files because of this problem I set it to 'confirmed'.
It's really annoying that my pbuilder-packages are "better" than PPA. :-(

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Confirmed
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.1.11 → 1.2.1
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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

any progress on this? It would be really good to get this fixed. Getting bugmail for stuff that we have no control over sucks :(

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Cédric OCHS (kervala) wrote :

I have the same problem with .mo files.

See the log : http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10596334/buildlog_ubuntu-gutsy-i386.wxmtpchat_0.12-1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz

A tarball was created but all .mo files are missing in the resulting .deb

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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

This was fixed for hardy PPA packages a few days ago and, as of right now, it should be fixed for all old releases as well (for new builds, that is, we didn't retroactively rebuild everything).

Changed in soyuz:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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