On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 03:42:14PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 16:36:50 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Package: perl-base > > Version: 5.24.1-2
> > Technically #786705 is just a harmless warning, but when > > during a jessie -> stretch upgrade perl-base is upgraded > > before debconf is upgraded the user might see a lot scary > > warnings as if something was seriously broken. > > > [...] > > > > perl-base should add a Breaks: debconf (<< 1.5.57~). > > Adding Breaks in a core package a couple of weeks before the release > sounds like a very, very, very bad idea. Indeed it seems too late in the cycle for this. Other possible solutions that come to mind: - silence the warnings during maintainer scripts, much like https://sources.debian.net/src/perl/5.24.1-2/debian/patches/debian/squelch-locale-warnings.diff/ (but it's late for even this IMO) - update debconf in a jessie point release to minimize the impact (this feels right to me, but won't help the immediate stretch upgraders) Cc'ing Colin. What do you think about the latter option? -- Niko Tyni [email protected]
