[Rpm-maint] Planning for rpm 4.13.0 (-rc2)

[Panu Matilainen]

On 10/17/2016 11:05 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 10/16/2016 10:15 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 04:33:00PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> Time to get rpm 4.13.0 out of the door. But in order to do that, we'll
>>> need to cut -rc2 first, there's just too much change to jump right into
>>> final.
>>>
>>> The idea is to get -rc2 out next week (ie by Oct 21st at latest). If all
>>> goes well we'll just rename that to -final in a few weeks time, if all
>>> goes to hell we'll just have another -rc. Which I really, really dont
>>> want to happen. So what I've planned for -rc2 is this rather
>>> conservative cherry-picks from git master on top of the 4.13.x branch:
>> [...]
>>> Anyway, the list above is not set in stone, otherwise there'd be little
>>> point in posting it here. If you think something absolutely critical is
>>> missing from that list, or that something should not be there, now is
>>> the time to speak up.
>>
>> Please include rpmdb.c fixes (commits 4c6e51e2 and e5d3b9f6), they are
>> essential for apt-rpm.
>
> Request noted, but remember this is an ages old runtime bug, finally
> fixed. Whether it gets fixed or not does not affect eg package or
> API/ABI compatibility, so it can just as well be fixed in 4.13.1.
>

So... in one of my weak moments I ended up letting these patches in 
4.13.0 against my own guidelines and here's my reward: commit 4c6e51e2 
breaks cleaning up the locks on ctrl-c and so we have a wholly unwanted 
and unnecessary regression in 4.13.0. Yeah it doesn't double free 
because it doesn't free at all, at least in this case - yay.

To reproduce, run 'rpm -qa' as root, hit ctrl-c and witness locks left 
behind, eg:

[root at mangusti ~]# rpm -qa|grep anything
^C
[root at mangusti ~]# rpm -q anything
BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x34a: 9666/140299205872448
BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x34b: 9666/140299205872448
BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x34c: 9666/140299205872448
package anything is not installed
[root at mangusti ~]#

	- Panu -