[Aptitude-devel] Bug#670379: Bug#670379: aptitude: Crash when downloading release not in sources.list

[Axel Beckert]

tag 670379 + confirmed
kthxbye

Igor FLEDERICK wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.6.6-1+b1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Here is the only entry I have in my sources.list:
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main
> 
> When I try to download a package from a release which is not in
> sources.list, I get a segfault :
> $ aptitude download -t stable libc6
> Segmentation fault
> $ aptitude download -t testing libc6
> Segmentation fault

I also get an error message before the segfault:

# aptitude download -t oldstable foobar
E: The value 'oldstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources
Segmentation fault          
# 

It doesn't seem to make a difference if the package given on the
commandline really exists.

		Regards, Axel
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