[Bug 617328] Re: space is a bad choice for seperator for Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins

[Alex Owen]

For a "fix" for 10.04 try the lenny patch from the debian bug report.

Specifically:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=27;filename=u-u-lenny.patch;att=1;bug=536754

>From debian bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/536754

Alex Owen


On 13 July 2011 19:54, Petar Maric <617328 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Any chance of backporting this fix to 10.04?
>
> Thanks
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> Title:
>  space is a bad choice for seperator for Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-
>  Origins
>
> Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: unattended-upgrades
>
>  http://bugs.debian.org/536754
>
>  I know ubuntu is not debian but for unattended-upgrades it appears
>  that ubuntu is upstream.
>
>  Some well known and well used repos have spaces in either of both of their "origin" and "archive"
>  debian-multimedisa has the string "Unofficial Multimedia Packages"
>  backports.org also has a space in it's origin.
>
>  Perhaps the simplest solution is to change to using a ":" as the separator. The origin strings come from Releases files which by inspection have the format:
>   <key>: <value>
>  And so presumably ":" cannot be in the <value>.
>
>  Would you accept patches to do this?
>
>  I guess you will want a patch that falls back to using a space
>  separator (for backwards compatibility) if there is no ":" seperator.
>
>
>  I am about to send a similar bug update to the debian bug #536754, I will then work on a backwards compatible debian patch then a backwards compatible ubuntu patch.
>
>  Please comment if you think this is a bad plan?
>
>  Alex Owen
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** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #536754
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536754

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Title:
  space is a bad choice for seperator for Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-
  Origins

Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: unattended-upgrades

  http://bugs.debian.org/536754

  I know ubuntu is not debian but for unattended-upgrades it appears
  that ubuntu is upstream.

  Some well known and well used repos have spaces in either of both of their "origin" and "archive"  
  debian-multimedisa has the string "Unofficial Multimedia Packages"
  backports.org also has a space in it's origin.

  Perhaps the simplest solution is to change to using a ":" as the separator. The origin strings come from Releases files which by inspection have the format:
   <key>: <value>
  And so presumably ":" cannot be in the <value>.

  Would you accept patches to do this?

  I guess you will want a patch that falls back to using a space
  separator (for backwards compatibility) if there is no ":" seperator.

  
  I am about to send a similar bug update to the debian bug #536754, I will then work on a backwards compatible debian patch then a backwards compatible ubuntu patch.

  Please comment if you think this is a bad plan?

  Alex Owen

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