[Piuparts-devel] piuparts test failed for apt-listbugs: please help!

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 24 May 2014 13:32:29 +0200 Holger Levsen wrote:

> Hi Francesco,

Hi Holger, how are you doing?
I hope everything is fine!

> 
> On Freitag, 23. Mai 2014, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > I noticed that the test on the apt-listbugs package (which I maintain)
> > has recently failed:
> > https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/fail/apt-listbugs_0.1.13.log
> 
> yup, I've tried to disable it running automatically after installation, as 
> this also caused your package to fail, eg in jessie, where there were RC bugs 
> shown.
> 
> So I've replaced /usr/bin/apt-listbugs with "#!/bin/sh\nexit 0" but (in 
> retrospect) unsurprisingly this makes the debsums check fail.

Ah! That explains everything!

> 
> So, whats the best way to disable apt-listbugs after installing it?

I think the best way is to set the environment variable
APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND to "none", as documented in the apt-listbugs man
page.
This will make apt-listbugs load its required libraries and then exit
with 0 status without doing anything else.

An alternative strategy is avoiding the automatic apt-listbugs
invocation by apt-get or aptitude: in order to do this you should
move /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs out of the way or alter it (so
that one of its line is turned into a comment).
But I suspect that this second strategy would also cause the debsums
check to fail, right?

>  
> > Could you please shed some light on this mystery?
> > Thanks a lot for your time!
> 
> Sorry for the confusion and making your search in the dark... I ment to mail 
> you and ask how to proceed...

That's OK, no problem at all: I hope my reply helps to fix this issue.
Please let me know.

Bye and thanks for your kind and prompt reply!


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