deal with EPIPE from json hooks

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.8.0~rc2

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apt (1.8.0~rc2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump SONAMEs in preparation for ABI breaks
  * Correctly handle feature detection for sse4.2 and crc32

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:15:07 +0100

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.7.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.9 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Verified - I ran the specified command, and saw exactly two lines for both bionic's 1.6.9 and cosmic's 1.7.3; as expected (one for each hook variant).

$ lxc exec apt-bionic -- apt -o AptCli::Hooks::Install::="/usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3" install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
E: Hook /usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3 reported an error during hello: {error should be json}
E: Hook /usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3 reported an error during hello: {error should be json}

$ lxc exec apt-cosmic -- apt -o AptCli::Hooks::Install::="/usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3" install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
E: Hook /usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3 reported an error during hello: {error should be json}
E: Hook /usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3 reported an error during hello: {error should be json}

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.7.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Reverified with 1.7.4 and 1.6.10

$ lxc exec apt-bionic -- apt -o AptCli::Hooks::Install::="/usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3" install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
E: Hook /usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3 reported an error during hello: {error should be json}
E: Hook /usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3 reported an error during hello: {error should be json}

$ lxc exec apt-cosmic -- apt -o AptCli::Hooks::Install::="/usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3" install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
E: Hook /usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3 reported an error during hello: {error should be json}
E: Hook /usr/bin/printf '{error should be json}\n\n' >&3 reported an error during hello: {error should be json}

The verification of the Stable Release Update for apt has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.7.4

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apt (1.7.4) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Fix name of APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Stats (was ...Update-Post...)
  * CMake: Install auth.conf.d directory (LP: #1818996)
  * Merge translations from 1.8.0

apt (1.7.3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * private-json-hooks.cc: deal with EPIPE (LP: #1814543)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Introduce experimental 'never' pinning for sources (LP: #1814727)
  * Add a Packages-Require-Authorization Release file field (LP: #1814727)
  * doc: Set ubuntu-codename to cosmic (LP: #1812696)
  * update: Provide APT::Update-Post-Invoke-Stats script hook point
    (LP: #1815760)
  * Introduce APT::Install::Pre-Invoke / Post-Invoke-Success (LP: #1815761)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:31:46 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.6.10

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apt (1.6.10) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Fix name of APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Stats (was ...Update-Post...)
  * CMake: Install auth.conf.d directory (LP: #1818996)
  * Merge translations from 1.7.4

apt (1.6.9) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * private-json-hooks.cc: deal with EPIPE (LP: #1814543)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Introduce experimental 'never' pinning for sources (LP: #1814727)
  * Add a Packages-Require-Authorization Release file field (LP: #1814727)
  * doc: Set ubuntu-codename to bionic (LP: #1812696)
  * update: Provide APT::Update-Post-Invoke-Stats script hook point
    (LP: #1815760)
  * Introduce APT::Install::Pre-Invoke / Post-Invoke-Success (LP: #1815761)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:34:07 +0100