This bug has been fixed upstream in commit b68ce88357daf362e60d7f8f131041289c8db690
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commit;h=b68ce88357daf362e60d7f8f131041289c8db690 commit b68ce88357daf362e60d7f8f131041289c8db690 Author: Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> Date: Mon Mar 17 13:43:12 2014 +0100 apt-inst: Do not try to create a substring of an empty string in error reporting One of our compressors (the empty one) has an empty extension. Calling substr on it fails. diff --git a/apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc b/apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc index 3803329..a63cb67 100644 --- a/apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc +++ b/apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc @@ -124,8 +124,10 @@ bool debDebFile::ExtractTarMember(pkgDirStream &Stream,const char *Name) { std::string ext = std::string(Name) + ".{"; for (std::vector<APT::Configuration::Compressor>::const_iterator c = compressor.begin(); - c != compressor.end(); ++c) - ext.append(c->Extension.substr(1)); + c != compressor.end(); ++c) { + if (!c->Extension.empty()) + ext.append(c->Extension.substr(1)); + } ext.append("}"); return _error->Error(_("Internal error, could not locate member %s"), ext.c_str()); } -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1288718 Title: apt-extracttemplates crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1288718/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
