Re: More notes about apt-xapian-index's freeze exception

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've noticed that apt-xapian-index in lenny is 0.13, I thought it was
> 0.15.
> 
> There is a nontrivial change introduced in 0.15, which implements
> appropriate handling of concurrent updates.  This is quite important
> because it allows a package manager to install apt-xapian-index and then
> run an update showing progress, without conflicting (actually,
> cooperating) with the index update automatically run with the package's
> postinst.
> 
> It's a nontrivial change, but it's been there since August with no
> apparent issues (except for #506766 which was fixed in 0.16 with a
> rather simple patch).  On the other hand, 0.13 has bigger problems
> (#509819).

unblocked

Cheers

Luk