[Aptitude-devel] Bug#725272: aptitude: add-user-tag/remove-user-tag does not report errors when runs by not root

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 21:13:31 UTC 2015


Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Alexander,

2013-10-03 15:09 Alexander V. Kudrevatykh:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.8.2-1
>Severity: normal
>
>When user try to add/remove user tag and run aptitude with not root user
>nothing happen - tag not added or removed, error not reported, exit status is
>zero
>
>I guess that original problem is not locking /var/lib/dpkg/lock during
>add/remove user tags or not checking status of lock/unlock

Thanks for the report, this has been addressed now and will be present
in the next release.  Marking as +pending.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>



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