[Bug 573598] Re: do-release-upgrade fails on large LTS (Hardy->Lucid) upgrades

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

** Package changed: update-manager-core (Ubuntu) => update-manager
(Ubuntu)

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #552125
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552125

** Also affects: update-manager via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552125
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade fails on large LTS (Hardy->Lucid) upgrades

Status in Update Manager:
  Unknown
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager-core

  Please work around or fix a bug in libdpkg-ruby/hardy
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552125 which lets do-
  release-upgrade fails on Hardy->Lucid upgrades when the package
  regular expression list is too big (>3000 Packages separated with a
  '|').

  I got something very similar to this (or the same):
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:905:in `initialize': regular expression too big: 
  (a long list of packages, separated with "|", then)

  
  (RegexpError)
          from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:905:in `new'
          from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:905:in `initialize'
          from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:995:in `new'
          from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:995:in `create'
          from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:1375
  E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code 
  (10)
  E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

  I disabled temporarily apt-list-bugs:
  sudo sed -i -e 's/DPkg\:/\/\/DPkg\:/g'  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs
  and repeated do-release-upgrade -d -m desktop

  ~$ apt-cache policy update-manager-core
  update-manager-core:
    Installed: 1:0.87.31
    Candidate: 1:0.134.7
    Version table:
       1:0.134.7 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
   *** 1:0.87.31 0
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ~$ apt-cache policy libdpkg-ruby1.8
  libdpkg-ruby1.8:
    Installed: 0.3.2
    Candidate: 0.3.6
    Version table:
       0.3.6 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
   *** 0.3.2 0
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ~$ apt-cache policy apt-listbugs
  apt-listbugs:
    Installed: 0.0.84
    Candidate: 0.0.84
    Version table:
   *** 0.0.84 0
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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