[Bug 1756238] Re: gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

In groovy the code for vte-keep-FD patch has been refactored to support
new upstream code.

However, I think it's the time we plan to remove this next cycle, given
that gdebi is the only project using it so far [1], and that upstream
already suggested a better way to do it [2].

So, if someone is still interested in fixing gdebi to address this,
please act as otherwise it's very likely that next versions of vte will
break it.


[1] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=VTE_PTY_KEEP_FD&literal=1
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320128#c23

** Bug watch added: bugzilla.gnome.org/ #320128
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320128

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Title:
  gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags

Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in vte2.91 source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When using gdebi-gtk to install a .deb the install fails with the
  message:-

  dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status
  and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor

  This only occurs via the gdebi-gtk GUI front end, packages install perfectly if done via the CLI with:
  sudo gdebi /path/to/packagename.deb

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