[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#982758: webext-browserpass: Failed to install on upgrade to bullseye

[Michael Meskes]

Hi all,

> Indeed. Using a clean Sid chroot, installing webext-browserpass from
> Buster and then upgrading does not exhibit this issue.

I tried with a stable chroot, then installed all the webext* packages you have
installed and then upgraded webext-browserpass. Works like a charm.

> Good question. My gut feeling at least says that the RC severity is
> justified as quite some people ran into it and it actually causes apt
> to abort in a quite nasty way.

I see your point, the problem is with this setting nobody is getting the
software because of some of us having issues in the upgrade. I'd love to get
this fixed before the freeze, but no matter what I tried I cannot reproduce.

> I currently suspect a relation to respectively overlap with a similar
> symlink/directory switch of maybe one of the directories mentioned
> above.

I thought so, too, but again, cannot identify the culprit.

> (It also seems important to not just remove but really purge the
> current package in case it was installed befotrehand. But I assume you
> either did that or used a fresh install.)

Yeah, the latter.

> Will soonish upgrade another productive Buster desktop to Bullseye
> where webext-browserpass is installed. Will have a close eye on the
> moment when upgrading webext-browserpass respectively will upgrade
> that package in a separate package upgrade from the remainder.

Did you find out anything more?

Thanks,
Michael
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