On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 03:41:40PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > Here's my attempt at addressing this bug as a three-patch series. The > first patch feels a bit awkward, but I've based it on the assumption > that tests that verify an exact output do so because they want to keep > that exact output. > > The integration tests test-apt-ftparchive-cachedb-lp1274466 and > test-apt-key always fail for me, even without these patches. I suppose > there's a small chance these patches break those tests without me > noticing. My apologies if so. > > Any feedback welcome. I'll be happy to rework these if you think this > bug should be approached differently.
Please submit them as a salsa merge request, so tests run and they don't get lost in a jungle of 600 bugs. It seems likely we won't merge them, as there are plans to become root as needed using a daemon and policykit: https://wiki.debian.org/Apt/Daemon That said, it might not make it into the next release, and this might be a useful improvement. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
