[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#865541: Bug#865541: sbuild --apt-distupgrade should not remove build-essential

[Raphael Hertzog]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> If you agree, then I will see this bugreport as a feature request to implement
> the following:
> 
> Let APT_DISTUPGRADE be a tristate option: 0, 1, 2
> 
> In addition to --apt-distupgrade and --no-apt-distupgrade add
> --maybe-apt-distupgrade.
> 
> In case of --apt-distupgrade, fail if sbuild removes build-essential.
> 
> In case of --maybe-apt-distupgrade, allow "partial" distupgrades by putting
> build-essential on hold before distupgrading.
> 
> Please signal your agreement to this plan by lowering the severity of this bug
> to wishlist.

Fine for me.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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