Bug#772641: apt: "E: Setting TIOCSCTTY for slave fd <fd> failed" when run as a session leader

[Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>]

Dear apt maintainers,

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 01:35:27AM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Attached is a patch which hopefully does exactly this. It is against
> experimental, but that shouldn't matter (expect for the testcase
> I think). I have run it on Linux amd64 (and armel) hardware as well
> as on a kfreebsd kvm, so I have some hope that it isn't regessing, but
> it would be nice if you could try it with puppet just to be sure that we
> are really fixing the problem completely or if I have justed resolved
> the problem in the setsid testcase.

Since David's patch works and this is an severity: serious/RC bug that
affects multiple people, how would you like to proceed? I see that while
David is not listed as an Uploader, he has a track record of
contributing to apt and has even signed off the latest upload.

I'd be happy to either sponsor an upload by David or NMU with his patch.
David, what do you think?

Let me know.

Thanks,
Faidon