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Bug#673815: libapt-pkg: segfault in pkgPackageManager::SmartUnPack()



Hi,

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:43:39PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> forcemerge 673536 673815

Oh sorry, I did not see that bug report … must have looked for the wrong
patterns.

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Sebastian Harl <tokkee@debian.org> wrote:
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I am interested, which package is completely unusable?
> You found a way around the problem yourself, so APT can't be
> the unusable one… And somehow i only know this sentence with
> the addition of "an unrelated", but yeah.

Well, the dist-upgrade is currently broken without any indication about
what's going wrong. I did not find a way around this, I simply checked
whether *some* other package (pulling in additional packages) could be
installed. I did not go as far as checking an 'apt-get install' of all
packages currently affected by the dist-upgrade.

As of now, this segfault will break an upgrade from Squeeze. Imho, this
affects a whole lot of unrelated packages.

> Fits "important" at most - at least until a maintainer disagrees.
> 
> […]
> > nagios-plugins-common
> […]
> 
> See master bugreport for details on the issue.

Ok, so the real issue is in nagios-plugins. So, this issue is limited to
systems with nagios installed (or any other similarly broken packages).

> You can find in there a patch and the notice that it is fixed,
> but the upload was unfortunately broken. Really misfortune that
> pbuilder has network access while the buildds haven't…

Good to hear that it's fixed :-)

Thanks for your response!

Cheers,
Sebastian

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