Bug#560789: pbuilder: output uses CAPITAL FONTS

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Mon Dec 14 09:00:39 UTC 2009


* Loïc Minier:

>  Hit this a good number of time today; sometimes happens when aptitude
>  installs build-deps, sometimes when pbuilder calls apt-get install
>  fakeroot, sometimes not at all.  I did not manage to strace a broken
>  apt-get, so it could very well be a race condition.

I also see it with sbuild.

>  Since the ouput is broken between apt-get's output and dpkg output, my
>  best suspect so far is APT's terminal handling, perhaps in this code:

I don't see any problems with it, but I don't grok that TTY stuff.
It's probably caused by the tcsetattr, which supports a flag to switch
to capital ltetters (OLCUC).

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