Bug#686918: pu: package dpkg/1.15.8.13

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:53:05 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I've been running with that version on one of my stable system for
some time now. And just uploaded it few minutes ago.

thanks,
guillem