Bug#664496: Possible weakness in preferences parsing.

2012-03-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 09:03:08PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:05:43 +0100 Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Did you tamper with /etc/apt/preferences manually? AFAIK no. This is the result

Bug#664496: Possible weakness in preferences parsing.

2012-03-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:45:14 +0100 Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 09:03:08PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] If the above really happens, could you please perform the test again, after having edited /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs so that the debug option is

Bug#664496: Possible weakness in preferences parsing.

2012-03-18 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.6 Severity: normal This is the preferences contents: Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Tue Mar 13 22:59:46 +0100 2012 Explanation: #663283: pbuilder: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed due to --check-key deprecation bug Package: pbuilder Pin: version

Bug#664496: Possible weakness in preferences parsing.

2012-03-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:28:30 +0100 Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.6 Severity: normal Hi Francesco, thanks for your bug report! This is the preferences contents: [...] Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Tue Mar 13 22:59:46 +0100 2012

Bug#664496: Possible weakness in preferences parsing.

2012-03-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:06:18 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Hence, it's not clear which is the bug (or which are the bugs) that made you decide to pin the package. Did you tamper with /etc/apt/preferences manually? Wait a second! Now that I looked for it, there seems to be no binary (or

Bug#664496: Possible weakness in preferences parsing.

2012-03-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:50:32 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Anyway, I've got good news for you: I managed to reproduce the bug, and I think I figured out how I can fix it. I am currently preparing the modification and I should begin testing it soon... I've just tagged this bug report as

Bug#664496: Possible weakness in preferences parsing.

2012-03-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: This issue seems to be caused by the pinning for libmysqlclient, which has an Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs [...] line (which makes it recognized as a pin managed by apt-listbugs), but no Explanation: #nn: [...] line.

Bug#664496: Possible weakness in preferences parsing.

2012-03-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:05:43 +0100 Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Did you tamper with /etc/apt/preferences manually? AFAIK no. This is the result of autopinning at upgrade time. Are you still able to re-generate this