Bug#824503: in apt marked as pending
Thanks a lot for the quick (and exhaustive!) fix.
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 08:01:58AM +0000, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Control: tag 824503 pending
>
> Hello,
>
> Bug #824503 in apt reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
> see the commit message below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/diff/?id=fdf9eef
>
> (this message was generated automatically based on the git commit message)
> ---
> commit fdf9eef4d96a18d0167708499c993e1174251e88
> Author: David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>
> Date: Fri May 20 09:37:24 2016 +0200
>
> fail instead of segfault on unreadable config files
>
> The report mentions "apt list --upgradable", but there are others which
> have inconsistent behavior ranging from segfaulting to doing something
> with the partial (and hence incomplete) data. We had a recent report
> about sources.list (#818628), this one mentions prefences, the obvious
> next step is conf files… so the testcase is adapted to check for all
> three in file and directory versions and run a bunch of commands each
> time which should all have more or less the same behavior in such a case
> (aka error out).
>
> Closes: 824503
>
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