Bug#561852: apt: Method http has died unexpectedly (undefined symbol:)

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

Hi George Danchev,

2009/12/29 George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>:
> It turns out that some previous version of apt (<= 0.7.24) provide libapt-pkg-
> libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1 shared object, which according to objdump -T and readelf -s
> do not provide the missing symbol in question (_Z14maybe_add_authR3URISs).
Correct, maybe_add_auth was added in rev 1561.3.1 of the debian-sid branch.
(Seems to be we forget to bump the minor abi while trying hard to not break
the major abi) but as the library and the user (method/http) are shipped in
the same package the error is still a bit strange, especially as the http
method is the most used acquire method and the call to maybe_add_auth is
unconditional, so many (read: all) users should have faced this problem...

So is this somehow reproducible?
I would personally prefer to understand why this happen at all
before closing the bug to be able to avoid such problems in the future.


Thanks for your help so far and a happy new year!

David Kalnischkies