[Bug 1260297] Re: status_update not sent any more, causes eternal hang on conffile prompts in aptdaemon

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This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.9.14.1ubuntu1

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apt (0.9.14.1ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian/sid
  * disable autopkgtest for now until it can test the installed
    packages and not only the build-tree (thanks to Martin Pitt)

apt (0.9.14.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * fix apt-get source -t dist regression (closes: #731853)
    and add testcase
  * clarify error message when apt-get source=ver fails
    (thans to David Kalnischkies)
  * Fix conffile prompt regression (LP: #1260297)
    and add testcase
  * improve error message for apt-get source pkg:arch{=ver,/release}
 -- Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com>   Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:19:49 +0100

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  status_update not sent any more, causes eternal hang on conffile
  prompts in aptdaemon

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  On November 23, aptdaemon started to fail its tests [1]. In
  particular, it now eternally hangs in the conffile tests, which is
  reproducible locally perfectly well (on current trusty):

  $ PYTHONPATH=. python3 tests/test_configfileprompt.py ConfigFilePromptTestCase.test_keep
  [...]
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: StatusDetails, silly-config wird konfiguriert
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]: Setting up silly-config (0.1-0) ...
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]: 
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]: Configuration file `/etc/silly-packages.cfg' (actually `/tmp/tmp8q_w7btmp/etc/silly-packages.cfg')
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]:  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]:  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]:    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]:     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]:     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]:       D     : show the differences between the versions
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]:       Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
  13:04:03 AptDaemon.Worker.Terminal [DEBUG]:  The default action is to keep your current version.

  After that it hangs eternally, you need to run "killall dpkg" to
  finish this.

  This coincides with the large apt update from  0.9.9.1~ubuntu5 to
  0.9.13~exp1ubuntu1 [2]; dpkg or aptdaemon itself haven't been uploaded
  in a while, so I'm fairly certain that either this is a regression in
  apt, or some deliberate new behaviour for which aptdaemon needs to be
  updated.

  I already ensured that the fix for bug 1254696 (Apt::Keep-Fds) does
  not help, and apparently aptdaemon does not even use that.

  [1] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/trusty-adt-aptdaemon/?
  [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/0.9.13~exp1ubuntu1

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