Package: pacman-package-manager Version: 7.1.0-2 Severity: grave Justification: completely breaks basic functionality
Hello, With curl 8.20 landing in Debian testing, basic pacman operations hang. On a clean Debian testing system, or e.g. in podman run -it --rm docker.io/debian:testing this can be reproduced with: cat > /tmp/pacman.conf <<'EOF' [options] Architecture = x86_64 SigLevel = Never [core] Server = https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/core/os/x86_64 EOF apt update apt install -y pacman-package-manager mkdir -p /tmp/root/var/lib/pacman pacman --config /tmp/pacman.conf --root /tmp/root --noconfirm -Sy glibc This starts with | :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] | :: Retrieving packages... | glibc-2.43+r22+g8362e8ce10b2-2-x86_64 10.3 MiB 9.25 MiB/s 00:01 [###############################################] 100% | linux-api-headers-7.0-1-x86_64 1533.9 KiB 9.02 MiB/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100% | iana-etc-20260530-1-any 401.8 KiB 7.01 MiB/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100% | tzdata-2026b-1-x86_64 304.6 KiB 6.47 MiB/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100% | filesystem-2025.10.12-1-any 15.1 KiB 1080 KiB/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100% | Total (5/5) 12.5 MiB 8.96 MiB/s 00:01 [###############################################] 100% | (5/5) checking keys in keyring [###############################################] 100% | (5/5) checking package integrity [###############################################] 100% | (5/5) loading package files [###############################################] 100% | (5/5) checking for file conflicts [###############################################] 100% | :: Processing package changes... | (1/5) installing linux-api-headers [###############################################] 100% | (2/5) installing tzdata [###############################################] 100% | Optional dependencies for tzdata | bash: for tzselect | glibc: for zdump, zic [pending] | (3/5) installing iana-etc [###############################################] 100% | (4/5) installing filesystem [###############################################] 100% | (5/5) installing glibc [###############################################] 100% | Optional dependencies for glibc | gd: for memusagestat | perl: for mtrace and then hangs forever. The fix was proposed upstream at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/merge_requests/361 and got applied in Arch: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/commit/387ebf06060fd5f https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/merge_requests/360 is a better fix (without memory leaks), but neither has been accepted upstream yet. But being accepted in Arch is good enough for now, and avoids the hangs. I also applied the same patch to Fedora recently: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pacman/pull-request/5# I'll prepare a debdiff with the same patch. Pitti
