Bug#968458: makes crossgrader completely broken, bumping severity
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 09:04:46AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>Control: severity -1 normal
>
>On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 04:57:41PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 serious
>>
>> Hi!
>> Because of this lacking M-A setting, crossgrader always fails in bullseye.
>> It had a hack to workaround this in buster, but for some reason that hack
>> is no longer working.
>>
>> I've discussed a bit with the maintainer in #989236.
>>
>> Thus, that package is broken for all users, which is RC. However, I find
>> little point in trying to debug why the hack fails -- fixing the real
>> cause is so much simpler.
>
>Go fight it out with the release team.
>
>I do not consider cross-grading to be a sensible, or supported
>operation. There is no support in APT for cross-grading, and scripts to
>do so are hackish at best. It's certainly not release critical.
Nobody is asking you to support anything here in apt, just mark the
python-apt-common as M-A: foreign. Do you have a good reason not to do
that?
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