Bug#986835: [pre-approval] unblock: dpkg/1.20.8

[Ivo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org>]

Hi Guillem,

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 08:13:10PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 17:58:08 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 15:36:08 +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> > > Please go ahead with the upload and remove the moreinfo tag from this bug when
> > > the new version is in unstable.
> > 
> > Thanks! I'm targeting an upload for later today, but I was thinking I
> > might try to quickly produce a tiny functional test for the
> > auto-deconfigure bug. I'll update the report once I get that, and I
> > could hold the upload until you approve that, but I'm not sure that's
> > worth the round-trip, given that it's a test? :)
> 
> Ok, this was actually trivial, as it was pretty much like the existing
> t-breaks test case but with Protected/Essential:yes added to the broken
> packages.
> 
> Attached updated patch, including test case and ref.

I don't know if you're expecting an explicit ack on the extra test as well,
but if you do: please go ahead and include the test :)

Thanks,

Ivo