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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:01:44AM +0200, Robert Luberda wrote:
> 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.

Despite the work around, this bug will affect etch to lenny upgrade
whenever apt is upgraded before menu or dwww. 

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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