Re: Bug#875430: emacs25: please add Breaks: edb (<< 1.32)

[David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>]

Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> writes:

> Package: emacs25
> Version: 25.2+1-5
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
>
> emacs25 fails to install if edb 1.31 is installed, see #840748 for the
> edb bug, which suggests that this is fixed in the next upstream release
> of edb.
>
> To ensure smooth upgrades to emacs25, we need a Breaks against the
> problematic version, s.t. edb either gets upgraded or removed.
>
>
> Andreas

Hi Andreas;

Thanks for all your work with piuparts.  I agree that your proposal
would unbreak things for some (fairly small number of) users.

On the other hand, I'm not really convinced that emacs should add a
breaks for every add-on that is broken. There are more than 300
potential addons. They need to be fixed or removed. I also don't think
it really makes sense to delay emacs migration to testing when edb isn't
actually in testing.

With a popcon of 18, and an RC bug open for almost two years, removing
edb seems justifiable.

all the best,

David