[ubuntu-dev] Bug#816097: workaround: use apt instead of aptitude as resolver

[James Clarke]

Control: reassign -1 qemu-user-static
Control: forcemerge 872771 -1

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:54:37AM +0200, Stefan Großhauser wrote:
>
> Thanks to jrtc27, I learned about a workaround:
>
> The segfault is not specific to pbuilder, but rather aptitude
> crashes under qemu-user.
>
> The reason sbuild works is just that sbuild happens to use a different
> resolver by default (probably there is a way to make sbuild use
> aptitude, which then *presumably* also crashes).
>
> To make pbuilder use apt instead of aptitude as resolver, put the
> following line into the .pbuilderrc (see pbuilderrc(5) for more info)
>
> PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD=/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-apt
>
> best regards
> Stefan

Since this is a bug in qemu-user, I am reassigning this and merging it
with a duplicate already reported against qemu-user.

Regards,
James