Your message dated Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:19:06 +0100
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and subject line Closing assert() related bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #64669,
regarding dpkg: Fails to install evolution-dbgsym
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.23
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
This morning installing a package with `apt` resulted in the error
below.
```
$ sudo apt install libevolution-dbgsym
[…]
Vormals nicht ausgewähltes Paket evolution-dbgsym wird gewählt.
dpkg: ../../src/filesdb.c:604: findnamenode: Zusicherung »(*pointerp)->name[0]
== '/'« nicht erfüllt.
[…]
```
(The translition is something like: “Assurance »(*pointerp)->name[0] ==
'/'« »(*pointerp)->name[0] == '/'« not valid.”)
Unfortunately, I did not save more of the output. Running the same
command this evening, everything worked. Also this noon on a different
system, I couldn’t reproduce this.
Note, that the system, where this happened uses a 32-bit user space.
Thanks,
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2+b1
ii libselinux1 2.6-3
ii tar 1.29b-1.1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 1.4~rc2
pn debsig-verify <none>
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Hi!
So, I'm not a big fan of closing bugs where it's unknown whether they
have been fixed or not. The problem with this set of reports, is that
they are pretty much unactionable. :/
What I've done in dpkg 1.19.1, has been to change all assert()s from the
dpkg codebase into internerr() calls, which means we should be getting
slightly better diagnostics from now on, if any of this ever happen
again.
So by closing these, I'm hoping to close things that have arleady been
fixed, even if accidentally, *and* to prompt any new occurrence to be
filed again as a new report with the additional information.
Thanks,
Guillem
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