RE: fwupdate is marked for autoremoval from testing
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> From: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:46 PM
> To: Limonciello, Mario
> Cc: debian-efi@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: fwupdate is marked for autoremoval from testing
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> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 10:09:51PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> >> From: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
>
> ...
>
> >> 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
> >
> >OK. I'ved pushed this to salsa. Can you review and make sure I didn't mess it
> up?
> >Feel free to upload if you think it looks good, otherwise I'll wait for your
> confirmation.
>
> I think it looks OK. Does it DTRT if you upgrade from a Buster machine
> with fwupdate installed?
Well I thought what was happening before was the "right" thing from my testing.
But it seems it wasn't enough for migration to go through.
I just did another test run in a container and it seemed OK for me.
I'll upload and we can monitor if that's enough now.
>
> >> 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.
> >
> >Do you think we need to add Breaks to fwupdate-*-signed too then on a
> fwupdate
> >12-8, or will that just complicate thing?
>
> Nah, Breaks doesn't really do anything for us here.
>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> >Sounds good to me.
>
> \o/
>
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