explain why the strange "please report" warning happened in the comments

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@20386 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index f7295ceec00..a97dcc32c4d 100755
--- a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -2550,7 +2550,16 @@ sub action_update {
       my $tlp = $localtlpdb->get_package($pkg);
       # we checked already that this package is present!
       # but our checks seem to be wrong, no idea why
+      # ahhh, it seems that it can happen due to a stupid incident, a bug
+      # on the server:
+      # - remove a package from a collection
+      # - at the same time increase its version number
+      # then what happens is:
+      # - first the package is removed (auto-remove!)
+      # - then it is tried to be updated here, which is not working!
+      # report that and ask for report
       if (!defined($tlp)) {
+        tlwarn("tlmgr: inconsistency on the server:\n");
         tlwarn("tlmgr: tlp for package $pkg cannot be found, please report.\n");
         next;
       }