Bug#554349: apt: Method rred has died unexpectedly!

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

tags 554349 + confirmed
thanks

Hello Faheem Mitha & all other co-bug-reporters :)

First of all: Thanks for the report!

I have currently no time to dig into it a bit deeper,
(hopefully i can do it tonight or tomorrow)
but my first guess is an overflow of an internal variable:
apt-get update -o Debug::pkgAcquire::RRed=1 -qq
results in 65,442 lines of output which is near the value
of a signed integer (65,535).

A patch of this size (~9 MB) is a bit uncommon as it
is bigger than the complete download of the new file.
It would be good if APT could detect it... we will see. :)

As a workaround you can disable pdiffs temporary with
apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false



Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

David "DonKult" Kalnischkies