[SRU] Update apt/xenial to 1.2.15

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.2.15 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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It's been more than a month now that I've been running that on my server, and no regressions popped up, so I think we are good to go.

And the individual bugs have automatic test cases if they can be tested, so there's no point in going over each of them individually and doing the same tests manually.

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.2.15

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apt (1.2.15) xenial; urgency=medium

  New micro release with bug fixes up to (and including) 1.3.1 (LP: #1638021)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * methods/ftp: Cope with weird PASV responses.
    Thanks to Lukasz Stelmach for the initial patch (Closes: #420940)
  * Fix buffer overflow in debListParser::VersionHash() (Closes: #828812)
  * cache: Bump minor version to 6
  * indextargets: Check that cache could be built before using it
    (Closes: #829651)
  * gpgv: Unlink the correct temp file in error case
  * fileutl: empty file support: Avoid fstat() on -1 fd and check result
  * Ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT for Pre-Install hooks
  * install-progress: Call the real ::fork() in our fork() method
  * Accept --autoremove as alias for --auto-remove
  * apt-inst: debfile: Pass comp. Name to ExtractTar, not Binary
  * changelog: Respect Dir setting for local changelog getting
  * Fix segfault and out-of-bounds read in Binary fields
  * Merge translations from 1.3~rc3
  * TagFile: Fix off-by-one errors in comment stripping
  * Base256ToNum: Fix uninitialized value
  * VersionHash: Do not skip too long dependency lines
  * Do not read stderr from proxy autodetection scripts

  [ Nicolas Le Cam ]
  * Use the ConditionACPower feature of systemd in the apt-daily service
    (Closes: #827930)

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * close server if parsing of header field failed
  * don't do atomic overrides with failed files (Closes: 828908)
  * if reading of autobit state failed, let write fail
  * write auto-bits before calling dpkg & again after if needed
  * factor out Pkg/DepIterator prettyprinters into own header
  * protect only the latest same-source providers from autoremove
  * reinstalling local deb file is no downgrade
  * do not treat same-version local debs as downgrade
  * avoid 416 response teardown binding to null pointer
  * don't change owner/perms/times through file:// symlinks
  * report all instead of first error up the acquire chain
  * keep trying with next if connection to a SRV host failed
  * call flush on the wrapped writebuffered FileFd
  * verify hash of input file in rred
  * use proper warning for automatic pipeline disable
  * rred: truncate result file before writing to it (Closes: #831762)
  * if the FileFd failed already following calls should fail, too
  * pass --force-remove-essential to dpkg only if needed
  * allow user@host (aka: no password) in URI parsing
  * drop incorrect const attribute from DirectoryExists (LP: 1473674)
  * http(s): allow empty values for header fields (Closes: 834048)
  * don't try pipelining if server closes connections (Closes: #832113)
  * don't loop on pinning pkgs from absolute debs by regex (Closes: 835818)
  * try not to call memcpy with length 0 in hash calculations
  * abort connection on '.' target replies in SRV

  [ Andrew Patterson ]
  * Add kernels with "+" in the package name to APT::NeverAutoRemove
    (Closes: #830159)

  [ Mert Dirik ]
  * Turkish program translation update (Closes: 832039)

  [ Zhou Mo ]
  * zh_CN.po: update simplified chinese translation

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15...

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