[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#774867: Bug#774867: lirc: diff for NMU version 0.9.0~pre1-1.2

Jonathan Wiltshire jmw at debian.org
Sun Jan 18 10:24:49 UTC 2015


On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 01:20:14AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 01:03:36 +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 17 January 2015, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > > I've prepared an NMU for lirc (versioned as 0.9.0~pre1-1.2) and
> > > uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I
> > > should delay it longer.
> > First of all, I acknowledge the NMU - thanks a lot, go ahead as you 
> > wish, but...
> 
> Thanks!
>  
> > I don't object to the patch, but it doesn't really help with this bug.
> > The bug itself only happens when dist-upgrading from squeeze to wheezy,
> > neither wheezy, jessie or wheezy-->jessie upgrades are affected at all,
> > so fixing this bug in jessie doesn't help any squeeze user who's just 
> > now starting to look at dist-upgrading to wheezy at all. 
> 
> I thought the same too, when looking at the bug, but my tests were
> quite interesting:
> - squeeze chroot, lirc-x installed
> - updated to wheezy - here the bug occurs
> - updated to jessie with the patched package: here the problem gets
>   fixed
> 
> So my conclusion is that the fix does help people who upgraded from
> squeeze (but it's indeed not necessary for people who install(ed)
> only the wheezy or jessie version).

That's correct. This class of bugs affects older installations that are
dist-upgraded through. We don't support skipping releases, but we do
support upgrading through releases.

The problem occurs because dpkg will *never* replace an existing symlink
with a new directory or vice-versa. However, the files do get written,
following the symlink. For packages that are a mixture of arch:any and
arch:all, and where files are slightly different depending on architecture,
this can be a real headache.

It may have been caused in Wheezy, but it still needs fixing in Jessie.

> > Therefore I'm curious, what is your plan with this bugfix?
> > Asking the release team for a jessie unblock doesn't really meet the
> > unblock criteria anymore, as the bug doesn't affect jessie nor wheezy
> > to jessie dist-upgrades (actually, had this bug been reported and fixed
> > in time before the wheezy release, I would have already removed this 
> > kind of pre-wheezy upgrade support from the packages intended for 
> > jessie).
> 
> I'll let Jonathan answer this question; but since he uploaded the
> same fix I'd assume that the release team will unblock the package :)

I assure you that RC bugs affecting Jessie are still candidates for
unblocks :)

> 
> > This piuparts mass bug filing imho would have better concentrated on 
> > just wheezy to jessie issues, rather than murkying the waters by 
> > including squeeze-->wheezy issues as well, that ship has sailed long
> > time ago.
> 
> I'm also a bit ambivalent about the value of those
> squeeze->wheezy->jessie upgrade tests where many issues just can't be
> fixed anymore. But unless I'm confusing something in my test setup,
> this is a case where a fix in jessie "repairs" a problem introduced
> earlier.

Indeed, and where this occurs in /usr/share/doc it's not really worth
fixing in stable, but should be sorted out where we can.


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