[Debconf-devel] Bug#863479: perl-base should add Breaks: debconf (<< 1.5.57~)

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 07:13:56PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:39:57PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:16:08PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > - update debconf in a jessie point release to minimize the impact
> > >   (this feels right to me, but won't help the immediate stretch upgraders)
> > > 
> > > Cc'ing Colin. What do you think about the latter option?
> > 
> > Agree, the third option looks correct to me, we don't have time for
> > anything else.
> 
> I'm reassigning this bug to debconf now as this seems to be the obvious
> way forward. Colin, let us know if you would like a hand with preparing an
> update for jessie for this.

Yep, this seems like the best thing we can do in practice, and I'm sorry
for taking a while to respond.  I have the update ready locally and have
filed #864910.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]