Thanks for keeping this open.
Packages should really not contain "time-bombs" like this.
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Holger Levsen wrote:
> control: severity -1 normal
> control: retitle -1 debian-security-support needs to be adapted to each new
> Debian release
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:34:44AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > As if I wouldn't have written it before... o.O
>
> talk is cheap, show me the code ;)
Just make the error to be non-fatal instead of exiting with error and
breaking the whole packaging system.
Only as a proof of concept, I believe the patch below would be better
than nothing, but of course you might want to do it with gettext and
debconf to do it properly.
Thanks.
--- a/check-support-status.in
+++ b/check-support-status.in
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ fi
if [ "$DEBIAN_VERSION" -lt "$DEB_LOWEST_VER_ID" ] || [ "$DEBIAN_VERSION" -gt
"$DEB_NEXT_VER_ID" ] ; then
eval_gettext "Unknown DEBIAN_VERSION \$DEBIAN_VERSION. Valid values from
\$DEB_LOWEST_VER_ID and \$DEB_NEXT_VER_ID"; echo
- exit 1
+ echo "Warning: This package does nothing with the current installed
version of Debian"
+ sleep 5
+ exit 0
fi
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