Bug#924401: #924401 base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2021-02-23 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: So yes, workarounds are (sadly) still necessary to debootstrap Debian. But arguing with Debian policy is the wrong way forward as policy does not talk about the debootstrap scenario but only about the system where your packages were at

Bug#983065: debian-policy: Downgrades are not allowed / Package upgrades must have a greater version than previous packages of the same name in the same suite

2021-02-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Axel, On Thu 18 Feb 2021 at 11:01PM +01, Axel Beckert wrote: > I know this is very obvious, but if you read > > * https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities and > * https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt > > it seems as if it should be listed somewhere in the policy that pac