Bug#499555: aptitude safe-upgrade (and pretty much everything else) segfaults.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 04:23:22PM -0400, Jason Riedy <jason@acm.org> was heard to say:
> And Sven Joachim writes:
> > They are not necessary since the problem is in apt, see #499322.
>
> Thanks! Should I file a wishlist for aptitude's lack of diagnostic
> output? It'd be nice if aptitude pointed at the culprit when something
> under it fails...
Only if you can provide a reasonable way for aptitude to detect that
symbols inside apt have changed in an incompatible way. I don't know
of any way to do that unless apt declares that an incompatible change
has been made (by, e.g., changing the SONAME). And of course any such
technique will necessarily be incomplete.
Daniel
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