543489 - deb repacks need access to dpkg-deb

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 506989

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Our current method of repacking is broken -- it's no longer seen as a valid deb, and won't show up in update repositories.

The fix is to use dpkg-deb instead of re-ar-ing the files.

We need to have dpkg-deb on the linux systems.  Not sure if this is available for CentOS or if we need to change the maemo l10n repacks to use scratchbox.

Comment 1

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

why did it break? what changed?

Comment 2

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

The l10n repos either broke when we changed the commands to try to fix the app name/icon, or never worked at all.

Stuart found this on Friday: http://wilmer.gaast.net/blog/archives/3-.deb-files-are-ar-archives,-but-....html

Comment 3

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Rail found these:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457210
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550582

Comment 4

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

In bug 538699 I tried to get repacks working outside of scratchbox again, and due to libhildonsomething + dpkg-deb had to use scratchbox.

Since bug 506989 dealt with that, reopening that and duping this to it.