[Piuparts-devel] more for 0.75 (was: Re: Bug#850917: Please export /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives content after installation)

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Tue Jan 24 10:44:46 UTC 2017


Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 06:31:50AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2017-01-23 12:09, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Here I disagree: I plan to upload 0.75 tomorrow or latest on wednesday
> > (not thursday) and let it migrate to stretch. After that, I'll be happy
> You can now revert 6ac6ab90dde2799003340162581e5efabc447b36
> the apt-get install p-d-d.deb stuff seems to be working.
 
done. I take it there were no relevant failures with "Command line
option --allow-downgrades is not understood'" which we didnt reschedule?

> Andreas Beckmann (7):
>       p-a: use debianbts syntax that is compatible with both jessie and stetch
>       piuparts-depends-dummy_error.conf: recognize the failure from apt-get install p-d-d.deb

/me grins at 

-            # FIXME: too many failures
-            # panic()
+            # don't panic(), too many problems on old distros

though shouldnt that be s#too many#just too many# ? :)

>       problems_and_no_force_error.conf: detect failed removal of essential package
>       database package upgrade tuning
>       p-a: catch, dump, ignore unknown exceptions while processing logfiles
>       detect_piuparts_issues: find more variants of full disks

>       p.conf: reduce reschedule-untestable-days to 1

nice! though I wish we could increase the delay… retest after a day,
then after 2, then 3, then 4…

In all: very nice work, "as usual", merged + deploying now…
 
> I'll try to get another series done tonight, so Wednesday would be a better
> upload day.

cool!

I've just pondered to call that piuparts 1.0, but then…
 
> Last weekend I looked into NMUing some packages with ancient piuparts bugs
> s.t. we don't need to relax the rules after release.

awesome!

> There should be only 
> oldstyle aspell-XX packages failing (debsums), but these do not have rdepends.

:)
 

-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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