[Bug 1825886] Re: Unattended-upgrades may crash when a package does not have a candidate

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unattended-upgrades into cosmic-proposed. The package will
build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/unattended-upgrades/1.5ubuntu3.18.10.4 in a few hours, and then in the
-proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed-cosmic

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Title:
  Unattended-upgrades may crash when a package does not have a candidate

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Committed
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Disco:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Unattended-upgrades may crash when a package in apt's cache does not have a candidate and it is visited when finding packages to adjust.
   * The crash occurs when apt.Package.candidate is None and the fix is checking if .candidate is truthy and it that case is safe to reference the .dependencies attribute.

  [Test Case]

   * Watch the error not happening anymore.

  [Regression Potential]

   * The fix is very small and is not likely to cause any regression.

  [Original Bug Text]

  The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding unattended-upgrades.  This problem was most recently seen with package version 1.10ubuntu5, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/0d08f995622277f81d276f1eae7e1a722e3627de contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
  If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/.

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