Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: bullseye
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
X-Debbugs-Cc: dpkg@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:dpkg
Hi!
[ Reason ]
This update backports the loong64 arch support as requested in #1051763
because some of the Debian infra is still using bullseye. There's also
a fix for a segfault on virtual field formatting which is rather easy
to trigger for packages that are known to dpkg, but are not installed,
such as virtual packages or references from Recommends or Suggests,
which was also included in the 1.21.22 pre-approval request included
in bookworm. And finally a fix for a memory leak, included in 1.22.0
in unstable.
[ Impact ]
- If the loong64 arch is not supported in oldstable, packages and
infra will not be able to add support for it.
- Easy to trigger segfault.
- Memory leak.
[ Tests ]
The arch addition and the segfault fix have tests. The memory leak
was detected by gcc ASAN, but it is trivial to verify. These pass
all dpkg unit test and functional tests, which are part of its release
process.
[ Risks ]
As part of the segfault backport, I also cherry-picked a minor
refactoring change that was required by another commit adding unit
tests for the module involved (which is required by the first
cherry-pick), but that should give better test coverage.
The two other changes seem rather low risk.
[ Checklist ]
[√] *all* changes are documented in the d/changelog
[√] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
[√] attach debdiff against the package in (old)stable
[√] the issue is verified as fixed in unstable
[ Changes ]
The git log is included in the debdiff, which I'm attaching in its full
compressed form with no filtering applied, but you might want to
filterdiff with:
xzcat dpkg-1.20.12-1.20.13.debdiff.xz |
filterdiff --exclude '*.po' --exclude '*.pot' \
--exclude '*/man/*/*.pod' \
--exclude '*/testsuite' --exclude '*/t-func/*.m4' \
--exclude '*/Makefile.in' \
--exclude '*/configure'
Thanks,
Guillem
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