On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 11:52 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > [re-sent with debian-release list address corrected...] > > > hi, > > 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. [...]
This makes debian-security-support transitively essential, whereas it used to be optional. Is "Conflicts" not strong enough? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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