** Description changed: [Impact] * auto-apt fails to update its local database of package information. - - Due to this, auto-apt is unusable in Trusty (and Saucy). + - Due to this, auto-apt is unusable in Trusty (and Saucy). * The new version 0.3.24 fixes this bug, LP: #1300987 and a dpkg warning about an - obsolete argument. + obsolete argument. [Test Case] * Run the commands 'sudo auto-apt update' and 'sudo auto-apt updatedb'. - - With version 0.3.23, the local database is not updated and the commands print - 'put: 0 files, 0 entries done (xx seconds)' or similar. - - With the news version 0.3.24, the local database is successfully updated. The - commands take a lot more time to complete and display more output. + - With version 0.3.23, the local database is not updated and the commands print + 'put: 0 files, 0 entries done (xx seconds)' or similar. + - With the new version 0.3.24, the local database is successfully updated. The + commands take a lot more time to complete and display more output. [Regression Potential] * auto-apt is already non-functional in Trusty (and Saucy), therefore there is no - regression potential. + regression potential. [Other Info] * The original bug report for Saucy follows: 1)Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 Note: Actually Kubuntu 13.10 2)auto-apt: Installed: 0.3.23 Candidate: 0.3.23 Version table: *** 0.3.23 0 500 http://md.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) $ sudo auto-apt update $ sudo auto-apt updatedb Both commands should update the databases 4) $ sudo auto-apt update $ sudo auto-apt updatedb Both commands output: put: 0 files, 0 entries done (xx seconds) where xx is about 10 seconds. And, no update is performed. 5) The bug is caused by line 145 in /usr/bin/auto-apt sed -ne 's=^[[:space:]][[:space:]]*deb[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\([^:[:space:]]*\):\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*.*=\1 \2/dists/\3=p' | i.e. by the one trailing space in the beginning ^[[:space:]][[:space:]]*deb At least my /etc/apt/sources.list doesn't contain any trailing spaces, which causes the sed to return 0 sources and no update is performed by auto-apt. 6) A workaround (or maybe a fix) is to delete the first trailing space [[:space:]] so the line should look like sed -ne 's=^[[:space:]]*deb[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\([^:[:space:]]*\):\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*.*=\1 \2/dists/\3=p' |
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