On 15/02/2021 10.07, Matthias Klose wrote:
On 2/14/21 5:58 PM, Simon McVittie wrote:On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 19:52:10 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:[The release team are] pretty concerned about a couple of known RC bugs which need the proper attention of people familiar with upgrade paths as there's potential to leave upgrading systems unbootable and/or without a working apt....https://bugs.debian.org/972936 / libgcc-s1
He reports that at least the issue he originally experienced, and perhaps others, can be fixed by adding transitional binary packages like these: https://salsa.debian.org/rpavlik/gcc-10-compat
can somebody confirm that as a working solution?
I finally tried to look into this issue and whether I can reproduce it in piuparts. But reading the mentioned bug logs seems to indicate that all known instances are fixed in current bullseye, or did I miss something? So far I didn't stumble upon something related in piuparts... And with the Breaks: gcc-8-base (<< 8.4) I suggested in #984574 we should be even safer against fallout from gcc-8.
That said, having real transitional packages is probably a good idea anyway. Andreas