Re: Stable update for system-tools-backends

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 13:25 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> please find attached a proposed stable update for system-tools-backends.
> 
> system-tools-backends (2.10.1-2squeeze1) stable; urgency=low
> 
>   [ Jérémy Bobbio ]
>   * Properly handle the rename of
>     /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf to
>     org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.conf.  (Closes: #553672)

Thanks for this.  There appears to be a potential issue with applying
the patch "as is" to stable.

A user may have performed a partial lenny to squeeze upgrade, pulling in
the new system-tools-backends, but not explicitly have installed
squeeze's dpkg.  Unless we can guarantee that squeeze's dpkg is
available (i.e. at least unpacked) before the proposed new preinst for
s-t-b runs, the dpkg-maintscript-helper call at the end needs guarding
or will fail; see the integration note at the end of
dpkg-maintscript-helper(1).

Regards,

Adam