On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:56:41 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:23:20AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Get rid of the triggers and get back to something that actually works. > > I believe that you are a bit late into this discussion. Initially I > proposed[63] a solution not involving triggers in the spirit of minimal > changes. Then Daniel Leidert being a member of the XML/SGML Group > requested[78] that the package catalogs be created at build time and be > shipped as conffiles. Later Joey Hess[164] requested that the central > catalog be generated using triggers. At that time both requests made > sense (and to me they still do). There were no objections and I did not > see the dpkg conffile trigger issue #676062 coming. So I implemented > both. > > The current state is that there are no non-transition issues left. Once > you are on sid, there are no sgml-base specific rc bugs affecting you. > Going "back" will not make the transitioning part any easier. At least I > don't see how that would work, but maybe your yet hidden solution can > surprise me? > I'm not interested in "you are on sid" so much as "you're upgrading from squeeze to wheezy". And considering the amount of bugs this whole thing has uncovered (whether in the transition stuff itself, in dpkg, or somewhere else) I'm fairly convinced this whole thing is in the "not worth it" category. And even in the "you've already upgraded" situation, dpkg's failing at trigger handling means I'm fairly nervous about the next dist-upgrade. Not blaming you, as you couldn't have predicted most of these bugs, just saying at some point you have to stop the trainwreck. Cheers, Julien
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