Re: Bug#830267: dpkg: Segmentation fault when purging package in APT test case
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> [dropped #830267 from CC; it's not directly relevant to this branch of the
> discussion]
>
> On 2016-07-24 17:43, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, Francesco Poli wrote:
> [...]
> >>could you please investigate on what happened to bug #830267 on
> >>2016-07-19T10:00 ?
> >>
> >>Please take a look at
> >>https://bugs.debian.org/830267#20
> >>https://bugs.debian.org/830267#25
> >>for more context.
> >
> >Hrm; it was shown as affecting testing at T0600 (and all subsequent
> >runs):
> >
> >status-201607190600:number=830267
> >status-201607190600-testing=1
> >status-201607190600-unstable=1
> >
> >but not on the immediately preceding run:
> [...]
> >That's really odd; I haven't changed anything on the BTS side during
> >that time period which would explain that happening.
> >
> >Unfortunately, I don't know when the BTS thought that 1.18.9 was
> >actually in testing and not in unstable. I'll try to check out snapshots
> >later this week to see if I can figure out when the transition actually
> >happened, or if there was something else going on in the archive to
> >explain it.
>
> Does the BTS take account of entries in Sources marked
> "Extra-Source-Only: yes" when determining bugginess?
No, we totally ignore that field.
> If so, a possible explanation is that debsig-verify 0.15 migrated to
> testing overnight on the 18th/19th. The binary packages have
> "Built-Using: dpkg (= 1.18.9)", which would have led dak to add the
> corresponding source package to testing with an E-S-O marker.
Ah. Yep, that definitely explains it.
OK, this is going to take a bit of work; I think the short-term answer
is for the BTS to completely ignore source entries which are
Extra-Source-Only: yes
I'll try to get to that shortly so we don't have more bad migrations
like this in the future.
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