[Bug 2067585] Update Released

[Andreas Hasenack]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-release-
upgrader has completed successfully and the package is now being
released to -updates.  Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates
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Title:
  Upgrades to noble chmod /dev/null 644

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Noble:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Upgrades to noble chmod /dev/null 644, breaking use of the device on multi-user systems for non-root.

  [Test plan]

  Upgrade from mantic to noble:

  1. do-release-upgrade --proposed
  2. check that /dev/null remains 666

  [Where problems could occur]

  This patch makes apt use a tempfile for extended_states during the
  dist-upgrade simulation. The change is confined to the simulation, so
  that is where we would see problems, potentially about the
  permissions/existence of the tempfile we use.

  [Details]
  This is a regression of the fix for bug 2064090, where we pointed apt_pkg.config["Dir::State::extended_states"] = "/dev/null" in the simulation to not lose the automatically installed bit, as we need that later, apt chmod's it extended_states.

  The fix for this is to create a temporary file for extended_states,
  and then remove the temporary file at the end of the simulation.

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