Bug#686918: pu: package dpkg/1.15.8.13
Control: tags -1 + squeeze confirmed
On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 08:52 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Here's the proposed update fixing an RC bug affecting dpkg in squeeze,
> cherry picked from sid. The attached patch is the filterdiff (w/o
> translation updates) of «git diff 1.15.8.12..». The git commit log
> for that fix is:
[...]
> dpkg: Do not translate SE Linux context to human readable form
>
> Cherry picked from commit 7db83375c952383540631244ace9cfefdfc908a7.
>
> The SE Linux context in computer readable form get translated to human
> readable form if the mcstransd daemon is running. But if the daemon
> fails inbetween then dpkg might try to write wrong data to disk. To
> avoid the flakines implied in relying on the state of that daemon,
> just never translate the context.
Assuming that the resulting package has been tested on a squeeze system,
please go ahead; thanks.
Regards,
Adam
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