On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:17:05PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:00:01 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > I've tried the attached patches they still fail in my use case (pbuilder > > create). The reason is that stderr contains completely unrelated garbish > > form ld.so. I've added a version that relies on exit status only. Can > > this be applied? > > Ah clever indeed! I had come to the same conclusion that relying on > stdout/stderr was a very bad idea, so I had already implemented a > bunch of --validate-<thing> commands in dpkg (with <thing> being > version, pkgname, trigname and archname), which do exactly that, > are not affected by debug settings or similar. Which is what I'm > in principle planning on merging for .16 which I should really be > releasing this week. :/ > > Sorry for the delay. Things have not been looking good from here. :(
I can NMU dpkg with just that fix so you have all the time needed for the next version. This would at unbreak creating / updating chroots with pbuilder and eatmydata (and whetever folks are using to manage their chroots). (and having --validate-<thing> is nice to have). Cheers, -- Guido
