Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir and dir_to_symlink without Pre-Depends:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014, at 18:36, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Holger Levsen (2014-11-04 18:23:11)
> > On Dienstag, 4. November 2014, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> >> I think it would be worth doing a jessie-wide test on packages using
> >> dpkg-maintscript-helper without Pre-Depends. There was a lot of late
> >> fixes[0] for any->all dh_linkdocs. As this breaks upgrades it needs
> >> to be mass bug filled and fixed before release.
> >
> > https://piuparts.debian.org/wheezy2jessie/ tests upgrades for all
> > packages, is there any string I can grep for in the logs?
>
> If possible "shuffle" the order of packages getting upgraded.
>
> Or specifically for this one: Hold back upgrade of dpkg to reveal all
> those packages needing the Jessie version but not stating it explicitly.
I think this is too much work for little gain.
Walking through the packages and greping them for
"(symlink|dir)_to_(dir|symlink)" in {pre,post}{inst,rm} + greping
"Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.5)" in d/control is less work.
O.
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