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Re: Bug#830267: dpkg: Segmentation fault when purging package in APT test case



On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:41:08 -0500 Don Armstrong wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 
> > [dropped #830267 from CC; it's not directly relevant to this branch of the
> > discussion]

So be 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.

Thanks a lot, Adam, for figuring out what could be the cause of the bad
migration.
And thanks to you, Don, for your willingness to fix the issue soon.

Bye.


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