Re: Jessie update of apt?

[Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>]

Hi Julian,

On 14/05/2020 20:18, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 02:40:03PM +0530, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
>> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 2:05 PM Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
>>> I'm happy to build and upload a package, but I don't neccessarily want to go
>>> through the trouble of checking out repos, writing announcement emails,
>>> and updating the website. So someone wants to do the paperwork? :)
>> I'll take care of announcing the update and preparing the update for website :)
>>
>>> I ran out of time when I built the other updates, and I could not really upload
>>> it anyway before the others are published (well, I could, but we wanted to
>>> avoid drawing attention for abit) so I have not prepared it yet, but I can
>>> upload it in the next few hours.
>> No rush. Let me know once you do that, I'll be happy to take over from there :)
> It's uploaded, and accepted, and I guess built by now.

The new test appears to fail in jessie (and wheezy, btw), with the new
apt built and installed:

root@jessie-lts:/usr/src/apt/apt-1.0.9.8.6#
test/integration/test-github-111-invalid-armember
ar: creating test.deb
Test of equality of runapt
/usr/src/apt/apt-1.0.9.8.6/test/integration/../../build/bin/testdeb
test.deb … PASS
ar: creating test.deb
Test of equality of runapt
/usr/src/apt/apt-1.0.9.8.6/test/integration/../../build/bin/testdeb
test.deb … PASS
Unterminated ar member name
Test of equality of runapt
/usr/src/apt/apt-1.0.9.8.6/test/integration/../../build/bin/testdeb
test.deb … PASS
ar: creating test.deb
Test of equality of runapt
/usr/src/apt/apt-1.0.9.8.6/test/integration/../../build/bin/testdeb
test.deb …
 W: Unknown TAR header type 88
+E: Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
FAIL

or
+E: Sub-process gzip received signal 2.
FAIL

Is this expected?

Cheers!
Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team