[Bug 816155] Re: Fails to parse virtual package providers from oneiric's apt

[Adam Conrad]

This appears to be an issue with apt (or something even lower level),
not sbuild.  One can witness with a simple "apt-get install mail-
transport-agent" followed by "apt-get install mail-transport-agent >
foo" that the package list, while happily displayed on your console,
isn't making it to STDOUT pipes, which sbuild needs to read them.

What's much more distressing is that strace shows the list being written
to FD 1 (which vaguely matches with "hey, we can see it on the
console"), so I have no idea why neither Perl nor the shell redirect get
around to seeing it.

** Project changed: launchpad-buildd => apt (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Fails to parse virtual package providers from oneiric's apt

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As seen in https://launchpadlibrarian.net/75888485/buildlog_ubuntu-
  oneiric-i386.projectm_2.0.1%2Bdfsg-9ubuntu1~ppa0_MANUALDEPWAIT.txt.gz,
  our sbuild is failing to parse the virtual package provider output of
  oneiric's apt:

    libglew-dev is a virtual package provided by: 
    Using  (no default, using first one)

  Yes, it picks the empty string to install.

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