Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 17:50:34 +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 07:59:21PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Hi Agustin, > > > > On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:38:56 +0200 Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org> > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 04:33:41PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > > > > I have been sugested in http://bugs.debian.org/751367 to put some of this > > > > code in a wheezy point release, and I would like to know your opinion here, > > > > > > Hi release team, > > > > > > Since jessie has already been released, this old wheezy pu is no longer > > > meaningful. > > > > Having jessie released does not imply that there will be no more point > > releases for wheezy, so this issue could still be fixed in wheezy. > > And since I can reproduce it in piuparts (on installation of some > > packages in wheezy with --install-recommends, no upgrades involved at > > all), I'd still like to see this fix in wheezy. > > Hi, Andreas, > > If the release team did not consider this change for a wheezy "pu" when > wheezy was stable, I think it is very unlikely that they consider it now > that wheezy is old-stable, that is why I closed the original request. > > If you think that there is a non null possibility for that wheezy pu I can > reopen the bug report (or please, do that yourself). I'll prepare the > package if the pu is pre-approved. > I don't understand from this bug what the issue actually is, it sounds like it's more about dictionaries-common not being prepared for some legal dpkg operations orderings rather than debconf db corruption. Which means the proposed patch doesn't seem ideal. Cheers, Julien
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