Bug#874326: [PATCH 0/3] acquire: hint if locking fails and we're not root
On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 03:41:40PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote:
> Here's my attempt at addressing this bug as a three-patch series. The
> first patch feels a bit awkward, but I've based it on the assumption
> that tests that verify an exact output do so because they want to keep
> that exact output.
>
> The integration tests test-apt-ftparchive-cachedb-lp1274466 and
> test-apt-key always fail for me, even without these patches. I suppose
> there's a small chance these patches break those tests without me
> noticing. My apologies if so.
>
> Any feedback welcome. I'll be happy to rework these if you think this
> bug should be approached differently.
Please submit them as a salsa merge request, so tests run and they don't
get lost in a jungle of 600 bugs. It seems likely we won't merge them,
as there are plans to become root as needed using a daemon and policykit:
https://wiki.debian.org/Apt/Daemon
That said, it might not make it into the next release, and this might
be a useful improvement.
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