reassign -1 base-files retitle -1 base-files: please add a break on d-s-s < 2019.04.25 thanks
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 01:00:14PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 11:52 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > So I think this can only be fixed properly (=without asking people to > > upgrade to the latest stretch pointrelease but instead allowing upgrades > > to buster from *any* stretch pointrelease) by adding a "pre-depends: > > debian-security-support (>= 2019.04.25)" to base-files in buster. > This makes debian-security-support transitively essential, whereas it > used to be optional. thanks, Ben. > Is "Conflicts" not strong enough? after re-reading https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#packages-which-break-other-packages-breaks and https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#conflicting-binary-packages-conflicts (policy 7.3 and 7.4) I now also think that a "Breaks: debian-security-support (>= 2019.04.25)" in src:base-files is in order. Thanks. -- tschau, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C we'll all die. make a difference while you can. disobey. smile.
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