On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 11:39:52AM -0700, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Package: menu
> Severity: normal
> User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu
> 
> menu currently uses interest triggers, causing packages triggering it to not 
> be
> configured until the trigger has run (so if A installs a menu file, dpkg 
> --configure A
> first updates menu and then configures A). There's no point in doing that, 
> especially
> with the intended semantic that the trigger should run after the package is
> configured - it's mostly the opposite of what you want.

Hello Julian,

I agree. However update-enus is supposed to wait until dpkg terminate
before running, so at this point the package should be configured.

> The use of interest instead of interest-noawait causes a lot of upgrade 
> failures for
> Ubuntu[1], hence I applied the patch there in the development release and 
> will push it
> out for stable releases too.
> 
> Please consider doing the same for Debian, to reduce upgrade failures there.

Are you sure the upgrade failure are not caused by another patch that it
applied by ubuntu ?

I have yet to see a single upgrade failure in Debian proper.

Cheers
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

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