Bug#843874: dpkg: segfaults installing desktop-base 9.0.0~exp1 on amd64

2016-11-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2016-11-10 16:34, Guillem Jover wrote: >> If you can still reproduce at will, I might like to provide a patch to >> make sure the fix works for you? If you could test this, probably >> later today, that'd be awesome! > > Ok, it was too trivial to leave alone. :) Attached the proposed patch. Th

Bug#843874: dpkg: segfaults installing desktop-base 9.0.0~exp1 on amd64

2016-11-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2016-11-10 at 16:24:13 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > This appears to be a problem with reportbroken_retexitstatus() in > src/error.c when printing out the packages affected by the errors, so > not something dangerous, but still annoying and wrong. > > From your backtrace it seems the

Bug#843874: dpkg: segfaults installing desktop-base 9.0.0~exp1 on amd64

2016-11-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2016-11-10 at 12:11:51 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.13 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts > Control: affects -1 + desktop-base > during a test with piuparts I noticed a reproducible dpkg segfault > when install

Bug#843874: dpkg: segfaults installing desktop-base 9.0.0~exp1 on amd64

2016-11-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.13 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: affects -1 + desktop-base Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed a reproducible dpkg segfault when installing desktop-base/experimental in a sid+experimental amd64 chroot. >From the a