Re: [RFR] qcumber 2.3.0-2 and piuparts issues
Good job! Thanks a lot, Andreas.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:23:56PM +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Hi Nilesh,
>
> Nilesh Patra, on 2021-01-12 23:39:20 +0530:
> > However, any idea as to why the corresponding salsa CI on piuparts fails?
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/qcumber/-/jobs/1332459
>
> This issue appears in the upgrade test from previous installed
> qcumber version. It is based on upgrading from the 2.3.0-1,
> which has the different and faulty /etc/qcumber/config.txt file.
> Dpkg detects this difference upon upgrade and requests the user
> for input, which fails the test. I think this is a good clue to
> detect whether NEWS items are required to document changes in
> configuration, but shouldn't be blocking, since configuration
> items in lots of packages may evolve from time to time.
>
> Trying to recognize the faulty config file and modify it, if not
> done right, I could potentially alter local changes, something
> forbidden by the policy[1]. What's what I wanted to avoid, but
> prepared in a preinst script just in case[2]; note that this one
> did not fail the piuparts Salsa CI test[3].
>
> [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#behavior
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/qcumber/-/blob/qcumber-2.3.0-1-preinst/debian/preinst
> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/qcumber/-/jobs/1332470
>
> This 2.3.0-1 never made it into Testing, so I think this issue
> shouldn't impede upgrade paths from Buster or Testing. Indeed,
> users of Unstable may have to examine the situation on upgrade.
>
> In any case, Thanks for asking! :)
> In hope this clarifies things,
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