comments: add regression test for sorting by date

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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn
index 226eae85ba499f3f25dd0bba8317a2fb4445f5ed..471dad98cb0480ad620e10af9e1a58be35f614ad 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn
@@ -43,21 +43,19 @@ The operation fails on these files with a "Checksum validation failed" error fro
 
 > Yes, on Debian unstable I got failures on only old ones, but not in
 > contiguous blocks: --[[Joey]] 
-
-<pre>
-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
-</pre>
-
+> 
+>     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
@@ -74,6 +72,20 @@ ikiwiki_2.62.tar.gz
 > 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> .
 
@@ -83,3 +95,18 @@ For now, I'll download the `.tar.gz` from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/s
 > 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.
+> > --&nbsp;[[sunny256]]&nbsp;<small>2011-02-24&nbsp;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]]