On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:38:06PM +0100, Steve Cotton wrote: > package apt > severity 535218 important > merge 295051 535218 > thanks > > > That is no solution. libapt should never ever ever ever > > segfault. [..] > That is likely to make this segfault unreproducible. It's not a > fix to this bug; but it seems this bug only triggers after the Dynamic > MMap bug has already broken apt. > (I'm guessing that the Dynamic MMap bug is creating a structure > with null pointers, and other code isn't ready for that.)
That is pretty likely, the current bzr code contains a bunch of extra checks that (hopefully) fixes the issue with the segfaults. Thanks to David Kalnischkies for his work on this. We plan to do a new upload very soon, its a ABI break, but it adds some nice features and fixes. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
