* Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>, 2015-12-04, 18:11:
In that case given the issue is due to a user misconfiguration, I guess we should just try to detect it, display a note and fail the installation.Warning the user would be certainly a good idea. But of course that would only help if the devpts filesystem was misconfigured at installation time. For me, this wasn't the case.What was the issue on your case?
I had schroot configured to mount /dev/pts with default permissions. (This should not be the problem for most schroot users. By default schroot bind-mounts /dev/pts from the host.) So my /dev/pts permissions were fine on upgrade; they only broke later, when I tried to build a package.
In another mail Aurelien wrote:
usertags 806882 + serious thankstag 806882 + serious thanks Due to a typo, this bug didn't get upgraded to serious.
FWIW, it wasn't a typo. :) It's an actual usertag of mine: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=serious&user=jwilk%40debian.org -- Jakub Wilk