Re: fwupdate is marked for autoremoval from testing
Hi Mario!
[ dropping CCs ]
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 02:51:28PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:42 AM
>> To: Limonciello, Mario
>> Cc: fwupdate@packages.debian.org; ftpmaster@debian.org; debian-
>> efi@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: fwupdate is marked for autoremoval from testing
>>
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>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:36:11PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >For fwupdate it's been converted to a transition package to move people to
>> fwupd, but it's not promoting from unstable to testing.
>> >Is there something that needs to be done on packager side, or ftp-master side?
>>
>> We probably need to make all the -signed packages *also* into
>> transitional packages too, so they'll be ready to migrate. At the
>> moment they're all tied together by dependencies and knowledge in
>> britney...
>>
>> --
>
>I would rather let those get removed if that helps this rather than a bunch more transition
>packages if possible.
>
>What about adding a clause for fwupdate's debian/control for:
>Provides: fwupdate-amd64-signed, fwupdate-i386-signed- fwupdate-armhf-signed, fwupdate-arm64-signed
>
>Would that be good enough?
It still won't fix things AFAICS. What I think we need to do is:
1. In fwupd, add Provides/Replaces, plus Conflicts: against the older
versions of fwupdate-*-signed. That will tell apt to upgrade
cleanly and thereby switch to fwupd instead. See
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.html#s5.9.3
I can see that you've added a Breaks: for the -template packages,
but I don't see that helping here. No actual users will ever
install the -template packages, they're just for the buildds to
use.
2. Stop building the various fwupdate binary packages (already done)
3. File removal bugs (against ftp.d.o) for the existing
fwupdate-*-signed source packages in unstable. That will pull them
out from unstable, and that will propagate to testing too.
How does that sound? Once we're all done there, we can talk to
ftpmaster about removing fwupdate from the special list of allowed
-signed packages, but that's not a priority.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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