Hello Julian, or anyone else affected, Accepted python-apt into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python- apt/2.2.0~ubuntu0.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed- hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: python-apt (Ubuntu Hirsute) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Tags removed: verification-done ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-hirsute -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1926437 Title: [SRU] Backport zstd support, fix bug in python-apt Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu: New Status in apt source package in Xenial: Fix Released Status in python-apt source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in python-apt source package in Bionic: New Status in python-apt source package in Focal: New Status in python-apt source package in Groovy: New Status in python-apt source package in Hirsute: Fix Committed Status in python-apt source package in Impish: New Bug description: [Impact] APT in xenial needs to learn about zstd support to enable Launchpad to work with zstd packages. python-apt in all releases needs to be adjusted to pass the compressor names instead of programs to ExtractTar, as otherwise, if /usr/bin/zstd does not exist, it will pass "false" as the compressor, and then ExtractTar fails (same for other compressors). On hirsute, the python-apt upload also includes some new <!nocheck> annotations for build-dependencies, as it's a straight upload of the 2.2 stable series. [Test plan] The apt regression tests cover the compression methods extensively, including even stored compressed lists in /var/lib/apt and fetching Packages files compressed with such methods, for all compression methods. The final test is to make apt_inst.DebFile("glibc-doc- reference_2.33-0ubuntu2~zstd1_all.deb").control.extractall() from 1923845 work in python3-apt. For hirsute, the build dependency changes will verify themselves during the build ;) [Where problems could occur] APT: The changes to APT are adding the zstd compression backend to FileFd and then linking it into the configuration. The former is adding new code, triggered only on zstd files, and should not be able to cause regressions. The latter is a bunch of small lines here and there, and it caused issues during backporting in the test suite because it expected compressors in a specific order. However, chances are that nothing else has as stringent requirements as the test suite, so I don't believe that is a problem for existing users. Bugs can of course be in the code dealing with zstd, and that might open you up to security vulnerabilities in the zstd code if you pass APT zstd compressed files. A regression can be if clients used apt-helper cat-file to cat a zstd- compressed file ending in .zst - they'll now get uncompressed content, rather than compressed. python-apt: The change just replaces Binary with Name, aligning the code with APT itself, so it's so trivial, we don't expect regressions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1926437/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
