Bug#662948: apt: most recent upgrade corrupts /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg

[Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>]

Hello,

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:54:15PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> I've noticed by chance the following:
> 
> When upgrading to this version (0.8.15.10), the file /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg
> was somehow modified.
> At some places a 0x00 was replaced by 0x03.
> 
> I reproduced this on 4 different sid machines...
> Every time I did
> 1) debsums -asc debian-archive-keyring 
>    => all fine
> 2) upgrade apt
> 3) debsums -asc debian-archive-keyring
>    => /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg "corrupted"
> 4) reinstalled debian-archive-keyring

I can confirm that on my debian wheezy system the upgrade of apt (from
version 0.8.15.9 to 0.8.15.10) and many other packages has changed
debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg in /usr/share/keyrings/. The old version
has been backuped to debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg~.

Best regards

Hannes