Bug#634696: apt: http transport dies with signal 10

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

package apt
severity 634696 serious
merge 634696 634925
thanks

Hello all,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 15:44, Sébastien Bernard <seb@frankengul.org> wrote:
> root# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid InRelease [146 kB]
> E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
> E: Sub-process http received signal 10.
> root#

Given that apt 0.8.15 worked (as confirmed by Kurt Roeckx) and
0.8.15.2 doesn't only on sparc{,64} i suspect a compiler issue, too.

Further more, the diff between these two versions is pretty small and
doesn't include changes to the http acquire method.

So, for a start, could someone with access to a sparc-box recompile
0.8.15 with gcc-4.6 to verify that it is indeed compiler related?
(by observing that this rebuild would be broken, too)


(Adding d-sparc@d.l.o so they can have a look at that, too)


Best regards

David Kalnischkies