[Debconf-devel] Bug#881574: debconf: Please Break: update-notifier-common (<< 3.187) for Ubuntu compatibility

[Steve Langasek]

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.64
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu bionic ubuntu-patch

Hi Colin,

debconf 1.5.64 has stalled in bionic-proposed, in part because the
update-notifier autopkgtests correctly detect that update-notifier is broken
by the removal of debconf.py.

I have uploaded update-notifier to bionic to add the necessary dependency on
python3-debconf, and I have also uploaded debconf to declare a Breaks:
against previous versions of update-notifier-common.

Please consider adding this Breaks: in Debian as well, even though
update-notifier is not in Debian more recently than oldstable.

Thanks,
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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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diff -Nru debconf-1.5.64/debian/control debconf-1.5.64ubuntu2/debian/control
--- debconf-1.5.64/debian/control	2017-10-15 03:44:37.000000000 -0700
+++ debconf-1.5.64ubuntu2/debian/control	2017-11-12 21:04:37.000000000 -0800
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 Priority: important
 Pre-Depends: perl-base (>= 5.20.1-3~)
 Conflicts: cdebconf (<< 0.96), debconf-tiny, apt (<< 0.3.12.1), menu (<= 2.1.3-1), dialog (<< 0.9b-20020814-1), whiptail (<< 0.51.4-11), whiptail-utf8 (<= 0.50.17-13), debconf-utils (<< 1.3.22)
-Breaks: apt-listchanges (<< 3.14), ubiquity (<< 17.10.2)
+Breaks: apt-listchanges (<< 3.14), ubiquity (<< 17.10.2), update-notifier-common (<< 3.187~)
 Provides: debconf-2.0
 Replaces: debconf-tiny
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}