Hello Julian, or anyone else affected, Accepted apt into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.6 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1796808 Title: frontend locking regression: dpkg::post-invoke scripts can't install packages Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in apt source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in apt source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] The switch to frontend locking in 1.2.28/1.6.5/1.7~ caused scripts registered in DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs DPkg::Pre-Invoke DPkg::Post-Invoke To be run with the frontend lock held. This caused problems with some installer packages like libdvd-pkg which install a locally built package in such a hook. To reduce the impact, a fix has been applied in 1.7.0 which exports the DPKG_FRONTEND_LOCKED variable when running those scripts, allowing dpkg to be run from those scripts. [Test case] Make sure that the test-frontend-lock test run by autopkgtest succeeds. This checks that: (1) the variable is correctly exported to those scripts (2) the frontend lock is still held (3) dpkg can be run from the post-invoke script [Regression potential] Depending on the script (for example, if the script starts a daemon manually or something like that), DPKG_FRONTEND_LOCKED might leak to other processes which might survive the apt call and thus revert surviving process to not using frontend locking. [Other info] This fix is for backwards compatibility only. Starting with the dd cycle, it will be dropped for the Pre-Install-Pkgs and Pre-Invoke scripts. Potentially for post-invoke as well, if we find a better solution for it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1796808/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
