Re: Processed: Re: your mail
On 29 Nov 1999, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
>
> > reassign 51280 apt
> Bug#51280: debconf: segfault in postinst
> Bug reassigned from package `debconf' to `apt'.
Joey, unless you CC the author the bug system eats your nice explanation,
I had to look on master for it.
Anyhow, I have no idea what you are doing here, but I don't see how it can
be an APT bug *unless* you are invoking APT from your post inst. (and
using 'exec' too boot!)
Basically, there is no way that the dpkg sub process (the post inst
script) would get a seg fault single from an APT proccess (the HTTP
method). The trace from dpkg can only happen if bash (your postinst
script) segs.
I think it is more likely that the core file the submitter found is an old
one or corrupt or something and that the debconf core file is actually
still lurking someplace else.
I'd also say that the core file itself looks bogus by the backtrace - that
sequence of call events never happens in APT.
Jason
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