> complains, but the tarball is produced successfully. However, I do see actual
> failures for 2.62 and 2.62.1, for instance. --[[smcv]]
+> Yes, on Debian unstable I got failures on only old ones, but not in
+> contiguous blocks: --[[Joey]]
+>
+> ikiwiki_2.20.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.30.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.31.1.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.46.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.47.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.48.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.49.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.50.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.51.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.62.1.tar.gz
+> ikiwiki_2.62.tar.gz
+>
+> Probably what would help debug this problem is if someone can
+> reproduce with one or more of the other ones that do **not** fail
+> for me, pass `-dk` to pristine-tar, and send me a copy of its temp directory
+> (joey@kitenet.net), and the versions of pristine-tar, tar, gzip.
+> Then I can compare the good and bad recreated
+> tarballs and identify the difference. Or pass them to the tar developers,
+> who have helped before.
+>
+> The only cause that I can think of is that perhaps tar's output
+> has changed compared with the version used to create those. The
+> only tar output change I know of involved filenames that were
+> exactly 100 bytes long -- and pristine-tar 1.11 works around that
+> when run with tar 1.25-2 on Debian. FWIW, I am only seeing
+> this in ikiwiki's pristine-tar info, not other packages'.
+> (Checked all of debhelper's and alien's and etckeeper's
+> and pristine-tar's tarballs.) --[[Joey]]
+>
+>> It looks as though I only get the same failures as you, so that's no help
+>> (reassuring, though, since we're presumably both running recent Debian).
+>> sunny256's failure cases might just result from the older tar and pristine-tar
+>> on Ubuntu 10.04? --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> Yes, I can reproduce the same failures sunny256 saw using Debian oldstable. Once I
+>>> upgrade pristine-tar and tar, it goes away, so I think it is the 100
+>>> byte filename bug affecting those.
+>>>
+>>> As to the ones we all see fail, I dunno what it is, but probably
+>>> has to do with some kind of historical issue in the versions of
+>>> pristine-tar/tar used to create them. We may never know what went wrong
+>>> there. --[[Joey]] [[done]]
+
A complete output of the "pristine-tar checkout" of all files is stored on <https://gist.github.com/836720> .
For now, I'll download the `.tar.gz` from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>, or maybe install `ikiwiki_3.20110124_all.deb`. Would you recommend using that `.deb` file on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, or is it Debian-specific? -- [[sunny256]] 2011-02-21 08:42+0100
> generally been able to compile snapshots on Debian unstable and
> install them onto Debian lenny (older than that Ubuntu release)
> without modification. If in doubt, build it from source. --[[smcv]]
+
+> > The .deb file `ikiwiki_3.20110124_all.deb` from Debian unstable seems to
+> > work great. I'm now the happy user of the newest stable version, yay. There
+> > were some errors or warnings, though. This is the first one:
+
+> > > `You are overwriting a locally defined method (finished) with an accessor
+> > > at /usr/lib/perl5/Moose/Meta/Attribute.pm line 570`
+
+> > Along with loads of other suspicious stuff. Have posted the whole output at
+> > <https://gist.github.com/842789>. I'll dig around a bit in the source to
+> > see if there's something I need to worry about. It looks good so far.
+> > -- [[sunny256]] <small>2011-02-24 20:27Z</small>
+
+> > > Looks like a bug in [[!cpan Net::Amazon::S3::Client::Bucket]] or in something
+> > > it uses, rather than in ikiwiki itself. --[[smcv]]