doc/bugs/Checksum_errors_on_the_pristine-tar_branch.mdwn



I'm in the process of installing ikiwiki on my home page (hooray), and wants to have the newest stable version available. I suppose that's the one on the pristine-tar branch. But I'm unable to recreate the newest .tar file, in fact there's errors in all these .tar.gz files on that branch:

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
ikiwiki_3.20101129.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20101201.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20101231.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20110105.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20110122.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20110123.tar.gz
ikiwiki_3.20110124.tar.gz

The operation fails on these files with a "Checksum validation failed" error from xdelta(1). The pristine-tar(1) version is 1.00, installed with apt-get on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. Is this version too old, or are there some errors on this branch?
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