[Bug 1815187] Re: Fix crash when opening DepCache before Cache

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.0.1ubuntu2.20 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-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-trusty. 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: apt (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-trusty

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Title:
  Fix crash when opening DepCache before Cache

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apt source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  apt search and probably other code crashes some time, as GetDepCache() in trusty does not call BuildCaches() first.

  [Test case]
  Run apt search -o RootDir=/dev/null foobar, make sure it does not crash.

  [Regression potential]
  There may be some locking implications, as we build caches when opening depcache first, without locks. That said, the same code is in use in all post-trusty releases, and they work fine.

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