[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1070027: apt: daily systemd service handles dpkg frontend locking incorrectly?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2024-08-07 14:16:59 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On upgrades, we do not restart or reload or otherwise interact with
> either apt-daily service, and the services are ordered so they do not
> run at the same time either; so you won't see races between the services
> or races from the service being restarted and lose to a parent apt
> process.

You're wrong about that. An upgrade / package installation
occasionally executes the apt-daily service, i.e. precisely at the
worst time for that! This is precisely why the issue with aptitude
is so frequent. I've submitted a new bug about this.

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