Bug#844315: tzdata version breaks dist-upgrade leaving version from oldstable security installed

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

reassign 844315 general
retitle 844315 updates appear in wheezy-security before jessie
affects 844315 tzdata
thanks

On 2016-11-14 12:54, Marcel Meckel wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2016i-0+deb7u1
> Severity: critical
> 
> Upgrading a fully updated wheezy system (incl. security repo) to
> jessie (incl. security repo) results in tzdata not being updated
> because the version in wheezy-security is newer than in jessie.
> 
> Package tzdata on amd64
> 
>   wheezy:                  2016d-0+deb7u1
>   wheezy-security:         2016i-0+deb7u1
> 
>   jessie:                  2016f-0+deb8u1
>   jessie-updates:          2016i-0+deb8u1
>   jessie-proposed-updates: 2016i-0+deb8u1
> 
> Using only the main repo + security repo results in tzdata not being
> updates since wheezy-securities '2016i-0+deb7u1' is higher than
> jessies '2016f-0+deb8u1'.

Nothing can be done at the tzdata level, except maybe stopping providing
updates to wheezy users. I am therefore reassigning the bug to the
"general" package. Also there are probably more than tzdata affected.

Note however that you are supposed to use jessie-updates on a jessie
system. This is actually enabled by default in debian-installer.

Aurelien

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