** Description changed: This is a bug collecting all remaining packages that need to be converted to noawait in xenial or bionic. + + [Impact] + "await" triggers are run before a package is configured. If B activates A, then A's trigger code in the postinst must be run before A can be configured. + + Triggers do not specify a ordering dependency however, so apt can very + well have A in a state where it is not configurable, and installing B + then fails. This is a limitation of triggers: They are not exposed in + Packages files, so we don't see them. + + What this means is that packages with await triggers either need to have + all triggering packages depend on them (e.g. B Depends A), or they need + to be moved to noawait. + + This bug is about moving triggers to be noawait, by changing "activate" + to "activate-noawait" and/or "interest" to "interest-noawait". If it + turns out the trigger should be "await", we should explictly use the + "interest-await" and "activate-await" variants in cosmic too. + + [Test case] + There is no test case. + + [Regression potential] + Packages triggering other packages are now configured even without the package being triggered being fully configured (they will be in the triggers-pending state). + + In most cases, this is not a problem. However, packages should be usable + when configured, so for example, a package installing a gsettings schema + would need to depend on the appropriate gsettings stuff and keep + triggering it via await, as it would crash otherwise despite being + configured.
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