Hi! On Sun, 2026-03-08 at 04:33:41 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2026-03-07 at 18:56:12 +0100, hede wrote: > > For the trixie release notes, especially for the > > “Upgrades from Debian 12 (bookworm)” section, it probably is a > > bad idea to change the .gpg file extensions to .pgp as the > > changes to the .pgp file extension for the files in the > > filesystem was done in the trixie release cycle and is not > > present within bookworm. > > The Upgrade from bookworm fails with .pgp in here. > > Ah, I initially thought this comment was confusing devref with the > rel-notes (as it otherwise seemed misplaced here), but I see now > there was a change done on the rel-notes related to this (which still > seems misplaced here, and the proposed change in this report seems > correct to me). > > I've not checked the context of the rel-notes change, but switching > the pathnames to the keyrings should only be done after a Debian > system has been fully upgraded to Debian trixie (not before), because > the keyring renames were done only in Debian trixie. > > If the current text proposes doing that before the upgrade, I think > that instead of reverting that change, it would be better to mention > that the user should be doing this after the upgrade to avoid having > to remember to do it on a next upgrade where there might no longer > be a .gpg symlink anymore.
I've prepared an MR to try to clarify this via a "Note" at <https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/341>. Thanks, Guillem
