Bug#776063: dbus fails to upgrade rendering entire apt unusable
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On 30/01/15 14:44, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:45:10AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> Or if dropping it down to interest-noawait would help, that isn't
>> really semantically correct, but it's probably acceptable in practice?
>
> Its not helping the general case of course, but -noawait triggers can't
> run in to this problem as nothing can end up in 'iW' with them. So if
> you think this is acceptable, I think it might be better than the
> alternatives like ripping this out of dpkg again or busy-waiting for me
> to figure something out (especially as I doubt that it will be pretty or
> even simple if at all solveable for wheezy-upgrades given we only have
> apt/wheezy for it…).
OK, I'll queue that in git, and talk to the release team about
clarifying how much of dbus 1.8.14-1 they'll need me to revert before
they let it migrate (#776144).
> and as usual: changes to the install-order scare
> the shit out of me, especially five minutes before release.
Sure, and that's a factor contributing to my willingness to mitigate it
in dbus.
S
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