Package: coreutils Version: 8.21-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
After upgrading coreutils from 8.13-3.5 my Xen guest couldn't be started. The script /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge from package xen-utils-common couldn't parse the output from 'brctl show'. The parsing is done via the following code (the newline after the first double quote is intentional): brctl show | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -f 1 cut is used to get the second line of the output using newline as delimiter. This behavior was changed from 8.13-3.5 to 8.21-1, newline as delimiter does not work anymore. Although I can see some good reasons for this change in behavior, it breaks things that rely upon it. As probably not only xen uses this old feature, I submit this report for the package coreutils as critical. Please feel free to change this assessment if you think otherwise. Cheers, Volker -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-1 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-1 ii libc6 2.17-7 ii libselinux1 2.1.13-2 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
