Package: apt Version: 0.6.40.1 There are places in apt where it calls a function like FileFd::Open but fails to check the boolean success/failure value.
Even in cases where this does not cause undefined behaviour it can cause strange and confusing error messages as, after the first call has failed and reported its failure, the code blunders on printing a bunch of consequential errors. For example, in apt-get.cc, DoCheck in indexcopy.cc, SigVerify::CopyMetaIndex and other places All other code in apt written by the authors of these mistakes should be thoroughly inspected (by eye or mechanically somehow) for similar problems - for example, by trying to get a compiler to report all places where a `boolean' return value is ignored. This bug report should not be closed until that inspection and resulting remedies are complete. Any other remedy will mean piecemeal finding and fixing of these kind of bugs for years to come. Thanks, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
