In particular, the code changes from commit 863a3f6ed715a4445e6d7906e4601045bb31b980 (from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/628162 merged Sept 20, 2020) are missing.
Confusingly, /usr/share/doc/scap/changelog.Debian.gz contains an entry corresponding to the missing commit:
* scap sync-world: Don't ask for confirmation
The changelog was updated in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/642394 (merged Nov 20, 2020).
- When was the tag created? Tue Nov 24 06:29:53 PST 2020
$ git tag -v debian/3.16.0-1 git tag -v debian/3.16.0-1 object 419b316aaab65be2df3eda45e3e505117d740ac5 type commit tag debian/3.16.0-1 tagger Lars Wirzenius <lwirzenius@wikimedia.org> 1606228193 +0200 scap Debian release 3.16.0-1 error: no signature found dancy@base:~/src/wmf/mediawiki/tools/scap$ date -d @1606228193 date -d @1606228193 Tue Nov 24 06:29:53 PST 2020
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After investigating how a scap release is prepared I discovered that the commit which merged the master branch into the release branch had an incorrect conflict resolution which resulted in removal of the effects of commit 863a3f6ed715a4445e6d7906e4601045bb31b980 (and who knows what else).
I will make proposals for simplifying the scap release process so that we don't suffer this risk in the future.