** Description changed: + [Impact] + + * Unattended-upgrades sends the following repeating dpkg progress lines with almost no informational value in the email report: + ... + (Reading database ... + (Reading database ... 5% + (Reading database ... 10% + (Reading database ... 15% + (Reading database ... 20% + (Reading database ... 25% + (Reading database ... 30% + (Reading database ... 35% + (Reading database ... 40% + (Reading database ... 45% + (Reading database ... 50% + (Reading database ... 55% + (Reading database ... 60% + (Reading database ... 65% + (Reading database ... 70% + (Reading database ... 75% + (Reading database ... 80% + (Reading database ... 85% + (Reading database ... 90% + (Reading database ... 95% + (Reading database ... 60486 files and directories currently installed.) + ... + + * This makes the report email too verbose and makes harder to spot real + problems. + + [Test Case] + + * Run package autopkgtest and observe no such lines in the echoed email + in upgrade-all-security and upgrade-between-snapshots tests. + + [Regression Potential] + + * The fix filters dpkg's output only and in the worst case other lines + could be missing or u-u could crash. Since the applied hard-coded regex + pattern is fairly simple and we observed no crashes in the tests those + regressions are unlikey to occur. + + [Originial Bug Text] + This concerns unattended-upgrades 0.90 in Xenial. Here is an excerpt from an e-mail report sent out by u-u after the upgrade process is completed: - Package installation log: - Log started: 2016-07-06 17:24:21 - Preconfiguring packages ... - (Reading database ... - (Reading database ... 5% - (Reading database ... 10% - (Reading database ... 15% - (Reading database ... 20% - (Reading database ... 25% - (Reading database ... 30% - (Reading database ... 35% - (Reading database ... 40% - (Reading database ... 45% - (Reading database ... 50% - (Reading database ... 55% - (Reading database ... 60% - (Reading database ... 65% - (Reading database ... 70% - (Reading database ... 75% - (Reading database ... 80% - (Reading database ... 85% - (Reading database ... 90% - (Reading database ... 95% - (Reading database ... 100% - (Reading database ... 314949 files and directories currently installed.) - Preparing to unpack .../tzdata_2016f-0ubuntu0.16.04_all.deb ... - Unpacking tzdata (2016f-0ubuntu0.16.04) over (2016d-0ubuntu0.16.04) ... - Preparing to unpack .../libgimp2.0_2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb ... + Package installation log: + Log started: 2016-07-06 17:24:21 + Preconfiguring packages ... + (Reading database ... + (Reading database ... 5% + (Reading database ... 10% + (Reading database ... 15% + (Reading database ... 20% + (Reading database ... 25% + (Reading database ... 30% + (Reading database ... 35% + (Reading database ... 40% + (Reading database ... 45% + (Reading database ... 50% + (Reading database ... 55% + (Reading database ... 60% + (Reading database ... 65% + (Reading database ... 70% + (Reading database ... 75% + (Reading database ... 80% + (Reading database ... 85% + (Reading database ... 90% + (Reading database ... 95% + (Reading database ... 100% + (Reading database ... 314949 files and directories currently installed.) + Preparing to unpack .../tzdata_2016f-0ubuntu0.16.04_all.deb ... + Unpacking tzdata (2016f-0ubuntu0.16.04) over (2016d-0ubuntu0.16.04) ... + Preparing to unpack .../libgimp2.0_2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb ... All but the last "Reading database ..." line should be elided from the message. As a matter of fact, those lines do not appear in messages mailed out from current Trusty systems (u-u version 0.82.1ubuntu2.4), so this appears to be a regression.
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