[Pkg-salt-team] Bug#738954: salt-minion: file.find crashes on dangling symlinks

[Avinash Sultanpur]

Package: salt-minion
Version: 0.16.4-2~bpo70+1
Severity: important

salt-call throws up an error when it encounters a dangling
symlink. The bug was fixed upstream:

 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/2830

$ sudo salt-call -l quiet --local file.find /tmp type=d
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/salt-call", line 11, in <module>
    salt_call()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/scripts.py", line 76, in salt_call
    client.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/cli/__init__.py", line 265, in run
    caller.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/cli/caller.py", line 132, in run
    ret = self.call()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/cli/caller.py", line 73, in call
    ret['return'] = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/modules/file.py", line 480, in find
    ret = [p for p in finder.find(path)]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/utils/find.py", line 555, in find
    fstat = os.stat(fullpath)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/link'

Please include the fix in the deb.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages salt-minion depends on:
ii  dctrl-tools           2.22.2
ii  python                2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python-pkg-resources  0.6.24-1
ii  salt-common           0.16.4-2~bpo70+1

Versions of packages salt-minion recommends:
ii  dmidecode  2.11-9

Versions of packages salt-minion suggests:
pn  python-augeas  <none>

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