Bug#775076: Fixing autopkgtest RC bug #775076 via t-p-u
Hello release team,
Christian Kastner discovered that when using vmdebootstrap with
autopkgtest's "VM setup" script it erroneously enables dpkg's
"force-unsafe-io" option on the host instead of the guest. This can
lead to potential system damage and thus should qualify as RC:
https://bugs.debian.org/775076
This is fixed in version 3.9.3 in unstable now, including a postinst
cleanup for cleaning up an erroneously created
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/autopkgtest on the host.
At the time when testing froze, testing had 3.6, and unstable's 3.7
(with a lot of changes) was one day short of propagating to testing;
so as these were already out of sync, I just kept on uploading to
unstable as that's what most people use for development. So I prepared
a debdiff for testing-proposed-updates at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=34;filename=autopkgtest.775076.jessie.debdiff;att=1;bug=775076
autopkgtest is mostly a Debian/Ubuntu developer, QA, and continuous
integration tool, so honestly the testing version isn't that
interesting any more. So if you prefer, I'd be perfectly okay (and
in fact happier) with getting 3.9.3 into testing instead; it has a lot
of new features, but also a lot of bug fixes:
https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/tmp/autopkgtest_3.6_3.9.3.debdiff
It's clearly waaaay outside the current freeze rules, but as it's not
an end user tool but rather an internal QA one, I want to at least
consider it. If we want to go that route, I'm happy to provide more
details.
Thank you and have a nice Sunday!
Martin
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Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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