Subject: pkg/18084: mail/mailman has wrong DISTNAME ?
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Robert Elz <kre@delta.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/27/2002 18:35:43
>Number:         18084
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       mail/mailman has wrong DISTNAME ?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 27 04:39:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Elz
>Release:        pkgsrc of 2002-08-27
>Organization:
	Prince of Songkla University
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD delta.cs.mu.OZ.AU 1.5ZC NetBSD 1.5ZC (DELTA) #4: Mon May 27 23:17:55 ICT 2002 kre@delta.cs.mu.OZ.AU:/usr/src/sys.X/arch/i386/compile/DELTA i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	The distfile wanted by the mailman pkg does not exist anywhere.
	Initially I thought this might be one of those "import the
	package only to find that the maintainers have deleted the
	distfile and replaced it with a newer one the next day" events
	that happen every now and then (especially as there have been
	reports of a security problem in mailman recently).

	But here, that doesn't seem to be the case.   This looks to be
	the initial version of mailman, its DISTNAME in the Makefile
	is
		DISTNAME=	mailman-2.0.13
	yet the distinfo file (imported at the same time) has information
	for mailman-2.0.12

	The 2.0.12 files exist (and all previous versions), I see no
	sign of 2.0.13 anywhere.
>How-To-Repeat:
	By inspection.   Or attempt to make (or just "make fetch") the
	mailman package.
>Fix:
	Assuming that there is no 2.0.13 anywhere yet, then s/13/12/
	in the DISTNAME in Makefile.

	Also, it would be nice if when the copyright doesn't prohibit
	it, if the distfiles could be fetched to ftp.netbsd.org before
	packages are imported/upgrqaded.   Then we'd much more rarely
	get the "distfile removed by maintainer" problem, as the copy
	at ftp.netbsd.org would be there, whatever the maintainers do...
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: