severity 577062 serious thanks Why are you proposing to upload this to testing-proposed-updates? The package is at the same version in testing and unstable - this looks like an update that should go via unstable only. As for the proposed change, I disagree that this is the right way to fix it. This is not a correct use of pre-depends; nothing in this sequence has a logical pre-depends relationship, the problem is entirely due to a buggy postrm script in the old version of the package. The correct way to fix this is by adding a postrm script to the *new* version of the individual packages, that handles the cleanup on upgrade. This postrm script should check for $1 = failed-upgrade and include an appropriate version check on $2, and be a no-op otherwise. (The proposed patch also includes a change to debian-junior-tasks.desc which is not documented in the changelog; please don't include undocumented changes in packages that you're requesting a freeze exception for.) Anyway, since this renders the packages un-upgradeable in many (all?) cases, I'm marking this bug severity: serious for the release. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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