Debian Support

pulp-deb==2.12.0
pulp-rpm==3.11.0
pulpcore==3.12.2

It looks like the package you tried to upload does not have a Section nor a Priority field in its metadata, but pulp_deb considers these to be required fields.

Can you tell me what package it was you were trying to upload?

I will have a more detailed look at this problem some time next week.

Neither section nor priority is a required field in the pulp_deb package model or serializer. This error message does not make much sense to me...

Looks like "blank" here refers to a Null value, so this may be related to empty string vs. Null value.

See: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/fields/#string-fields

I've encountered the same issue trying to sync: deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com bionic main

foreman-2.3.5-1.el7.noarch
katello-3.18.5-1.el7.noarch
python3-pulp-deb-2.9.2-1.el7.noarch
python3-pulp-rpm-3.10.0-1.el7.noarch
python3-pulpcore-3.7.6-1.el7.noarch

pulp_tasks:
- pulp_href: "/pulp/api/v3/tasks/4d674eb1-5bdb-4b94-addb-0f480cc303f0/"
  pulp_created: '2021-10-22T12:07:06.812+00:00'
  state: failed
  name: pulp_deb.app.tasks.synchronizing.synchronize
  started_at: '2021-10-22T12:07:06.928+00:00'
  finished_at: '2021-10-22T12:07:07.750+00:00'
  error:
    traceback: |2
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rq/worker.py", line 936, in perform_job
          rv = job.perform()
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rq/job.py", line 684, in perform
          self._result = self._execute()
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rq/job.py", line 690, in _execute
          return self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pulp_deb/app/tasks/synchronizing.py", line 106, in synchronize
          DebDeclarativeVersion(first_stage, repository, mirror=mirror).create()
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pulpcore/plugin/stages/declarative_version.py", line 148, in create
          loop.run_until_complete(pipeline)
        File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/asyncio/base_events.py", line 484, in run_until_complete
          return future.result()
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pulpcore/plugin/stages/api.py", line 225, in create_pipeline
          await asyncio.gather(*futures)
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pulpcore/plugin/stages/api.py", line 43, in __call__
          await self.run()
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pulp_deb/app/tasks/synchronizing.py", line 390, in run
          *[self._handle_distribution(distribution) for distribution in self.distributions]
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pulp_deb/app/tasks/synchronizing.py", line 450, in _handle_distribution
          for component in _filter_split(release_file.components, self.components)
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pulp_deb/app/tasks/synchronizing.py", line 497, in _handle_component
          await asyncio.gather(*pending_tasks)
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pulp_deb/app/tasks/synchronizing.py", line 554, in _handle_package_index
          serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
        File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py", line 242, in is_valid
          raise ValidationError(self.errors)
    description: "{'section': [ErrorDetail(string='This field may not be blank.',
      code='blank')], 'priority': [ErrorDetail(string='This field may not be blank.',
      code='blank')]}"
  worker: "/pulp/api/v3/workers/d28102d7-b296-4fd6-ad48-dad07c0dc94a/"

I managed to retrieve a package index paragraph from the Hashicorp repo that pulp_deb chokes on:

Package: consul-terraform-sync
Version: 0.4.0
Section:
Priority:
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: HashiCorp
Installed-Size: 34483
Depends: openssl
Homepage: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-terraform-sync
Description: Consul Terraform Sync is a service-oriented tool for managing network infrastructure near real-time.
Filename: pool/amd64/main/consul-terraform-sync_0.4.0_amd64.deb
SHA1: 4d5a30b17aab337cd9775461627e9ba7080e9d5d
SHA256: 7aa0613c93c030981b873233c0f284aff33ecef0a19e03ebef9e3b90e2f68dab
Size: 15966854

While Section and Priority are not required fields in pulp_deb, including the key without a value as above causes the error during validation.

Have same issue when trying to sync deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian bullseye stable

# pulp status
{
  "versions": [
    {
      "component": "core",
      "version": "3.16.0"
    },
    {
      "component": "rpm",
      "version": "3.16.1"
    },
    {
      "component": "python",
      "version": "3.5.2"
    },
    {
      "component": "deb",
      "version": "2.16.0"
    },
    {
      "component": "container",
      "version": "2.9.0"
    }
  ],