Control: severity -1 serious

On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 21:39:01 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.17.4
> Severity: critical

Way inflated severity.

> update-alternative crashes when creating the alternatives for
> epiphany-browser, causing epiphany-browser to not be configured,
> thus breaking it, and probably other software as well.
> 
> The part of the postinst causing the seg fault is:
> 
> PRIO=85
> for alt in x-www-browser gnome-www-browser; do
>     update-alternatives --install \
>         /usr/bin/$alt $alt /usr/bin/epiphany-browser $PRIO \
>             --slave /usr/share/man/man1/$alt.1.gz $alt.1.gz 
> /usr/share/man/man1/epiphany-browser.1.gz
> done
> 
> Maybe you can reproduce this yourself in a debug build, otherwise
> I'll do a debug build myself and try to reproduce it with debugging
> symbols.

Well it does not trigger on the test suite, anyway looking into it now.

Thanks,
Guillem


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