[Aptitude-devel] Bug#815978: aptitude: 'aptitude show' segfaults on some packages

[anabioz34]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:01:36AM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Control: forcemerge 815581 -1
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 2016-02-26 09:57 anabioz34:
> >Subject: aptitude: 'aptitude show' segfaults on some packages
> >Package: aptitude
> >Version: 0.7.6-1
> >Severity: normal
> >
> >Dear Maintainer,
> >
> >Sometimes, 'aptitude show' lead to 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)'
> >(exit-code 139). For example, aptitude show unattended-upgrades. I tried
> >to update packages list, but it did not give any effect. This bug is
> >rare and does not affect most of the packages.
> 
> Presumably it happens with the packages that are not installed (there
> have been a couple of reports like that), so I am going to merge the
> report with them.
> 
> Can you please confirm that for example unattended-upgrades was not
> installed in your system?
> 
> 
> Cheers.
> -- 
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>
> 
Yes, it's not installed in my system.