Re,
On 11/15/2014 03:49 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
On 2014-11-14 19:48, Thomas Liske wrote:
On 11/14/2014 01:07 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package prompts the user
badly. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating
through a program such as debconf which conforms to the Debian
Configuration Management Specification, version 2 or higher.
the Debian Policy does not apply - the observed bug is within the
upstream perl core.
The Policy applies to upstream bugs too, as long as they are found in Debian.
:-)
You are quoting a section applying to debian maintainer scripts - the
maintainer script in needrestart does not use debconf nor is it buggy at
all. needrestart is launched by apt outside of dpkg - it's "just" apt
which hangs due to the buggy DPkg::Post-Invoke command.
So the package can be installed/upgraded/removed without problems...
it's just the dpkg frontend which hangs due to the bug ;-P
But that's just academic - the bug is silly and needs to be fixed for
jessie without any doubt.
I think this is triggered by a division by zero in the same code path as
in #767370. This could be triggered if no kernel images were found or no
I could verify that the bug disappears if I use
--extra-old-packages linux-image-amd64
so merging the two reports.
Thanks for confirming & merging!
process being a restart candidates. Both conditions occure rarely in the
wild. Therefore the severity of this issue should be not higher than
normal.
No kernel installed is not uncommon in virtualized environments - this
is where the bug was found initially.
I would agree on a lower severity if piuparts was the only way to
trigger the bug.
Paravirtualized using libvirt AFAIK - there are many other
virtualization environments requiring a kernel image inside the
container. But the bug should keep a severity of serious[1] if it
violates the debian policy.
[1] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
The current upload you want to get into jessie was only uploaded with
priority=low. If the upstream fix for this bug here gets backported
and uploaded with priority=medium it would be eligible for migration
at the same time. I think you should do that, especially since I do
not see an unblock request for the current version in sid.
The patch for #767370 and #769544 has not been uploaded by Patrick, yet.
HTH,
Thomas
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