Subject: bug#25692: [PATCH] sed fails testsuite/panic-tests when tty is not owned by current user

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 21:22:19 +0000

Hello Kent,

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:45:27AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:

>If the tty is owned by a privileged user, and that privileged user is building
>sed after changing UID, the state of the tty's may look as follows:
[...]
>FAIL: testsuite/panic-tests

Thank you for the report.

I'll look into it soon.

But before that:
>Downstream Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604798

sed-4.3 contained a bug which could lead to segfault,
and we've released sed-4.4 shortly after.

If you are involved in packaging sed for gentoo,
I highly recommend to upgrade.

Please see more details in a similar bugreport
we've submitted for debian:
 https://bugs.debian.org/853864

regards,
 - assaf