Bug#463030: apt >=0.7.7 break menu update mechanism

[Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>]

found apt 0.7.11
thanks

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Bill Allombert wrote:

Hi, 

> 
> Version 0.7.7 (and above, but not below) of apt-get breaks the automatic
> update of the Debian menu system. It seems the postinst script inherit
> some signal handling from apt-get that break menu, but I do not have
> pinpointed it yet. 

The bug also affects dwww, which runs a background job in postinst. 
With current apt the job is killed with SIGHUP. I'm going to upload 
dwww 1.10.12 with work-aroud for this bug, however it still can be 
easily reproduced with previous version.

Regards,
robert