On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 02:26:04AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Package: debootstrap >Version: 1.0.120 >Severity: serious >Justification: RoM > >Hi, > >It seems my comments in [1] were ignored, so filing an RC bug to make >sure this is tracked at least by the BTS and britney. > > 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2020/03/msg00103.html > >The latest batch of bug reports filed by Johannes 'josch' Schauer seems >to confirm my initial assessment: this will break (too) many use cases >(#953404, #953588, #953593, #953594, #953617). > >Right now, my current plan would be: > - creating a branch called “mandatory-security-support” (or something > similar) at 1.0.121, so that people wanting to turn that into something > suitable can try to do so, but I'm still unconvinced even having that as > an option (disabled by default) would be appropriate, for all the > problems that can come up when trying to drive apt. > - remove support in master entirely, for the time being. > >Rationale for plain removal is: we need to be able to upload debootstrap >with bugfixes, without having to suffer from all the side effects coming >from that recent change.
Sounds sensible enough to me... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.
