tags 571806 + fixed-upstream pending thanks On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:06:35PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:38:22AM -0500, Andres Mejia wrote: > > Package: sbuild > > Version: 0.60.0-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > It looks as though STDERR is not being properly piped in the run_apt() > > subroutine. This problem may be in Sbuild::Chroot, but I haven't thouroughly > > checked. This is from sbuild version 0.60.0-1 with the patch in bug #403246. > > > > Here's a debug output. Note the 'E: Couldn't find package' message and how > > it's missing in $msgs at the end. > > STDERR is probably going directly to the build log since we aren't > intercepting it. We should either redirect it to the same pipe as > stdout so we can process it in one go, or drop the checking entirely, > since it's not exactly reliable in any case since it depends upon > the apt messages never changing. The same applies to the broken > build environment: if it's broken we fail and it's already logged > in the package build log, so I'm not sure what we gain from the > extra complexity. > > The virtual packages/ALTERNATIVES handling is a little different. > However, this is really the wrong place to handle it: rather than > retrying, the dependency resolver should have already handled this. > Note it's also using the hardcoded ALTERNATIVES list, rather than > any genuine package-provided alternatives, so IMO it's also > broken and we could possibly remove it.
OK, we've opted to remove this code, which fixes the bug as a side- effect since stderr is no longer needed. The ALTERNATIVES support is also removed, since the aptitude resolver does this properly. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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