On 2015-04-02 11:27, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 10:17:52AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> live-tools/wheezy is buggy, causing install/upgrade failures in other >> packages (wheezy: #779888, upgrade: #781725). >> The underlying dependency issue has been fixed in jessie long ago, > > Next stop - stable proposed update then?!
That won't happen before the release of jessie (hopefully). >> This could be fixed (I verified this by building a patched lvm2 and using it >> in a piuparts test) by adding >> Breaks: Breaks: live-tools (<< 4.0.1-1) >> to dmsetup to change the unpacking order and get rid of the broken live-tools > I think spreading workarounds for this issue all over the archive is > not very nice. If anything, we should have a stronger policy against That's just a single package that would have to be modified ... and we have similar "workarounds" in quite a lot of packages. >> Note that removing live-tools from jessie won't solve this upgrade issue. > > I suggest simply documenting "aptitude purge live-tools" as one of the > pre-upgrade checks to do prior to upgrading to Jessie in the release notes. > > You might argue that noone reads the release notes, but then they get > what they deserve. Let user support forums deal with it. According > to popcon the live-tools install-base is very marginal anyway. Fixing this properly would be easier (and shorter) than writing a proper release note entry (or this email). On 2015-04-02 14:52, Julien Cristau wrote: > If live-tools is supposed to be a live CD thing, I'm not sure how likely > it is anyone's going to want to dist-upgrade it... That's probably unlikely (besides in piuparts), but where should a line be drawn? Especially if a fix would be easier than adding yet another workaround to piuparts ... Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
