Bug#992457: Broken by irresponsible removal of tempfile in debianutils
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, at 14:01, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> T. Joseph Carter <tjcarter@spiritsubstance.com> (2021-08-18):
> > It's debianutils' bug, really, and the bugs keep getting filed (and
> > resolved), but there's a half a dozen packages on my system that are
> > broken by it. Yours happens to be used at boot time and for general
> > system operation.
>
> It's an ongoing conversation on IRC apparently, and yes, some kind of
> advance warning would have been appreciated.
Ohhhh yes, I'm sure there is. I've missed those over the years. 🍿
> That being said, it's not entirely crazy to attempt such changes very
> early in the release cycle, and if we ought to move away from those
> tools, I don't mind much.
Yes, but you "try" to do that by marking the packages deprecated and filing bugs that version 5, due out X weeks, and ask them to make changes or allow NMU. Ideally, you then keep it around for a release or so AFTER you make Debian no longer dependent upon the tools.
Dunno who else would miss tempfile, but I'm kinda partial to which since command -v will NOT give you the path to a file if you typically alias that file, and type -P is not POSIX and does not work with dash.
> > If you're busy and debianutils' change doesn't get reverted, I can
> > prepare a patch. It's literally replacing tempfile and which with
> > their more generic equivalents, after all.
>
> I think we'd be happy to have a patch or a merge request to review, even
> more so if you've tested it on a real system.
>
> The git repo is at:
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/
>
> but a patch against the source package would be fine too.
>
> Thanks for the heads-up!
Presumably /installer-team/console-setup would be a better package to patch, unless cdebconf uses tempfile somehow. 😉 I'll see what I can do this evening. 🙂
Joseph
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