Comment 27 for bug 653307

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Andrew Bennetts (spiv) wrote : Re: [Bug 653307] Re: Import fails with missing referenced chk root keys

> > One more strange detail: james_w ran a script to delete all the branches
> > of these affected imports, and yet http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
> > branches/debian/squeeze/dsdo/squeeze/.bzr/repository/packs/ and
> > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
> > branches/debian/sid/dsdo/sid/.bzr/repository/packs/ show timestamps
> > almost 12 months old for the pack files! I guess the deletion failed?
>
> Or he deleted the branch but not the repository? Or some of the packs
> aren't referenced in pack-names, or...?

The deletes were performed through the API, i.e. hopefully equivalent to
clicking the 'Delete' button in the web UI.

> The differing content for the same revision-id is, indeed, pretty
> worrying. The importer doesn't use deterministic revision ids, so I
> really don't know how that could have happened.

Right :(