Control: severity -1 normal On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 02:11:41PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 2.9.2 > Severity: serious > > one package to reproduce this bug is mpich 4.2.0-5.1 > > mpich-4.2.0# apt-get build-dep -y . > Note, using directory '.' to get the build dependencies > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error' > what(): basic_string::_M_create > Aborted (core dumped) > > Running this through gdb and extracting the interesting part of the > backtrace: > > #11 0x00007ffff7e28c6c in std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, > std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string<char const*, > void> (__a=..., > __end=0x5555555baade " amd64 powerpc armhf],\n"..., > __beg=0x5555555baadf "amd64 powerpc armhf],\n"..., this=0x7fffffffd670) > at /usr/include/c++/13/bits/basic_string.h:765 > #12 debListParser::ParseDepends (Start=<optimized out>, > Start@entry=0x5555555baabb "valgrind [i386 arm64 ppc64el ppc64 amd64 > powerpc armhf],\n"..., > Stop=Stop@entry=0x5555555bab15 "\nBuild-Conflicts: libamdhip64-dev\n"..., > Package=..., Ver=..., Op=@0x7fffffffd930: 0, ParseArchFlags=<optimized out>, > StripMultiArch=<optimized out>, ParseRestrictionsList=<optimized out>, > Arch=...) at ./apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc:667 > > Note the double space in ..."ppc64 amd64"... > It tries to create a std::string with __end < __beg resulting in a > negative (or insane) length.
Don't do that then. I mean it is failing safely, this is highly unusual so it's not a critical bug in any sort of shape for apt (but sure for packages actually doing that in the archive since they don't build correctly or whatever). -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
