Re: sid upgrade

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Thu 12 Sep 2013 at 19:44:46 +0200, François Patte wrote:

> I made an attempt to upgrade sid (amd64); apt-get report some bugs:
> 
> grave bugs of upower (0.9.21-2 -> 0.9.21-3) <unfixed>
>  #722474 - upower: on update fails with critical glib errors & doesn't
> work properly after reboot

Please read the bug report. It does not inspire me with confidence that
the severity is grave.

> serious bugs of libklibc (2.0.1-3.1 -> 2.0.2-1) <unfixed>
>  #720290 - klibc: FTBFS on mips*

Are you using the mips architecture? No. Then forget about it.

You *are* using mips? FTBS is "Failed to build from source". Are you
building libklibc?

> serious bugs of debhelper (9.20130630 -> 9.20130720) <unfixed>
>  #722501 - FTBFS with perl 5.18 (POD error: trailing space in L<..>)
> serious bugs of dh-python (1.20130807-1 -> 1.20130903-1) <tagged as
> pending a fix>

FTBS. Please see above. 

>  #722307 - dh-python: dh_python2 creates dependencies on non-existing
> python2

Look at bug report. Are you using picard?

> Summary:
>  libklibc(1 bug), debhelper(1 bug), dh-python(1 bug), upower(1 bug)
> 
> is it safe to proceed or shall I wait untill these bugs are corrected?

If you have set up your system to get such a report the onus is on you
to look at the bug and come to a judgement. Not proceeding loses you
nothing; you are not obliged to upgrade Sid.