Michael Gratton created an issue #522:
I just tried to release geary 3.38.2, and got the following:
mjog@blanchefort:~/Projects/GNOME/geary$ scp +build/meson-dist/geary-3.38.2.tar.xz master.gnome.org:
geary-3.38.2.tar.xz 100% 2469KB 708.0KB/s 00:03
mjog@blanchefort:~/Projects/GNOME/geary$ ssh master.gnome.org ftpadmin install geary-3.38.2.tar.xz
Gathering information and sorting on version: ., done
Preparing installation of geary-3.38.2.tar.xz:
- Checking consistency: ........, done
- Checking previous tarball: ........, done
- NEWS, done (diff, 26 lines)
- Copying tar.xz, done
- Creating sha256sum, done
Module: geary
Version: 3.38.2 (previous version: 3.38.1)
Destination: /ftp/pub/GNOME/sources/geary/3.38/
Install geary? [Y/n] y
Installing geary-3.38.2.tar.xz:
- Moving files: ..., done
- Updating LATEST-IS, done
- Updating known versions, done
- Removing original tarball, done
Doing notifications:
- Informing ftp-release-list, done
- Triggering ftp.gnome.org updateFAILED (exit code 1)
Your tarball will appear in the following location on ftp.gnome.org:
https://download.gnome.org/sources/geary/3.38/
It is important to retain the trailing slash for compatibility with
broken http clients.
sudo: PAM account management error: System error
1d6462a979ad880cf1de75d1417b630d5b2f8df852ee98b08110f47c3708c650 geary-3.38.2.news
bed544fe6d764576d6786715c111956969fd4409878fc303339504ec4c7bd396 geary-3.38.2.tar.xz
The ftp-release-list email uses information from the modules DOAP file. Make
sure at least the following fields are filled in:
name, shortdesc, description, download-page, bug-database
See https://wiki.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner#doap
Please report any problems to:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues