Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected, Accepted appstream into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/0.12.0-3ubuntu1 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: appstream (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792537 Title: /usr/bin/appstreamcli:5:g_variant_new_parsed_va:g_variant_builder_add_parsed:as_content_rating_to_variant:as_component_to_variant:as_cache_file_save Status in appstream package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in appstream source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Bug description: The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding appstream. This problem was most recently seen with package version 0.12.2-2, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/fca706c9b229ddb2bae3fa59877eee4f98f69366 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports. If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/. This crash happens when trying to upgrade a fully up-to-date bionic machine to cosmic. appstreamcli crashes with the following error, thus aborting the upgrade process: E:Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/cache/app-info -a -e /usr/bin/appstreamcli; then appstreamcli refresh-cache > /dev/null; fi', E:Sub-process retrened an error code [Impact] * As of today, users upgrading from bionic to cosmic will see the upgrade process abort early on because of this crash. This is most likely caused by malformed appstream metadata, so the issue might go away if that metadata is fixed at some point. In the meantime, this completely prevents bionic→cosmic upgrades. * The fix is upstream (https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/734e9da66bf12fcaa94c10465db2dcf8bb2b94cb) and in the cosmic version of appstream [Test Case] 1. On a fresh bionic installation, change bionic to cosmic in sources.list 2. Run apt update This use case happens when the user does a release upgrade. [Regression potential] This patch affects the way appstream metadata is parsed to build a representation in memory. Potential regressions may happen if the parser is fed invalid/malformed metadata with unexpected types. That's actually the cause of the crash itself, so we cannot assume that it won't happen again with differently malformed metadata. There doesn't appear to be specific tests associated to that crash in the upstream commit that fixes it, so there's no guarantee it won't regress in the future. [Other Info] According to errors.ubuntu.com the crash still happens in cosmic with appstream 0.12.2-2, which would imply that the patch does not fix all occurrences of the problem. However according to Laney this data is not always accurate, sometimes crashes which happen around an upgrade are reported against the new version mistakenly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1792537/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
