Sean Whitton: > Hello, > > On Mon 13 May 2019 at 11:52AM +00, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> [re-sent with debian-release list address corrected...] > > Also resending. Sorry. > >> so there is "#928172 debian-security-support: fails to upgrade from >> 'testing': >> dpkg: error: error executing hook" which happens when base-files is upgraded >> before debian-security-support (but doesnt happen if d-s-s is upgraded >> first...) >> >> 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. > > I didn't think we supported upgrades from anything but the latest point > release of the previous stable release? > > My belief is based on the release notes saying that you should upgrade > to the latest point relesae first. >
My understanding is that we prefer that upgrade paths works regardless of which minor version of the stable release you upgrade from (to the extend possible). Thanks, ~Niels
