Bug#673878: apt segfaults on upgrading nagios-plugins

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

reassign 673878 libapt-pkg4.12
forcemerge 673536 673878
thanks

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> wrote:
> Yes, you are right, it happened with 0.9.3 and I can't reproduce it with
> 0.9.4. Should this problem get fixed for stable too? I guess it could get
> upgraded to fail.

This problem is not in stable. With 0.9 we finally moved to an improved
ordering code produced in the last google summer of code.
It got through various iterations in experimental to get a few more
cornercases fixed; a slight variant of this cornercase here got fixed
by introducing a loop-check, but this check worked only under the
tested upgrade condition - not in new install which is encountered here…


And just for safety: Just checked, in this regard apt/squeeze and
apt/0.9.4 produce the same solution for nagios.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies