[Piuparts-devel] [stretch] Status on upgrade paths

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-04-12 15:19, Michael Biebl wrote:
> We regularly get a report about
> https://jenkins.debian.net/job/chroot-installation_jessie_install_gnome_upgrade_to_stretch_aptdpkg_first/
> failing.
> 
> Regular dist-upgrades of GNOME (i.e. no separate apt/dpkg upgrade first)
> work fine though.
> 
> I'm not sure if anyone has ever investigated this fully. It's most
> likely caused by the libstdc++ transition and libsig++-2.0 being
> involved in that.

I have done apt+dpkg first upgrade tests in piuparts for jessie, (mainly
to see if the new apt solves some failing upgrade paths better).
But I haven't looked into doing such for stretch, yet. And so far it
didn't look like its needed.

Looking at you log, it already fails to install apt+dpkg from stretch.
This involves upgrading all the C++ libs due to the v5 transition.
And with gnome installed, these are probably a lot ...

Andreas