Bug#509866: found the ALL CAPS bug

[Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.21
Severity: normal

Hi,

I believe the problem is line 785 of apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:

| tcgetattr(0, &tt);

The return code is not checked here; the call will fail if stdin is not a
terminal (in the case of d-i and autobuilders, it isn't), and the termios
struct ends up uninitialized, so the pty for dpkg is set up randomly.

   Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                         2.9-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.3-7  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.3-7    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                   <none>         (no description available)
ii  aptitude                  0.4.11.11-1+b1 terminal-based package manager
ii  bzip2                     1.0.5-1        high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev                  1.14.26        Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                      4.43-14        Compression method of 7z format in
pn  python-apt                <none>         (no description available)

-- no debconf information