[plug] nasty 'at' bug in ubuntu?

[William Kenworthy]

rattus ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge sys-process/at -vp

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-process/at-3.1.10.1  0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
rattus ~ #

... install

rattus ~ # at -V
at version 3.1.9
Bug reports to: rmurray at debian.org (Ryan Murray)
Garbled time
rattus ~ # at 10pm thu
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
at> blah
at> <EOT>
job 1 at Fri Jan  1 21:00:00 2010
rattus ~ # atq
1	Fri Jan  1 21:00:00 2010 a root
rattus ~ #

So it looks like 3.1.9 is installed, even though it indicates a package
of 3.1.10.1 - not good!

Also have a look at:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69739

The last line indicates politics/personalities may be involved ...

BillK


On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:43 +0900, Mike Holland wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> > I dont see any mention of this bug in the gentoo changelog, or when
> > looking at gentoo's patches for at, so its looking like a debian
> > specific "feature"
> 
> Bill, it'd be interesting if you could install 3.1.10.1 and see if it 
> has the bug.  It seems to have been introduced in 3.1.9 or 10.
> 
> The wrong behaviour that is - the dodgy code is probably a lot older.
> 
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