[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#952703: [cryptsetup] needs breaks on old cryptsetup-bin

[jnqnfe at gmail.com]

On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 16:41 +0100, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 05:40:10 +0000, jnqnfe at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> As I wrote previously, adding the break isn't the only thing that
> would
> have made your upgrade you smooth, the postinst script would like
> need
> to be adapted too. 
> 
> While the side effect isn't intentional, not having the Breaks: on
> older
> cryptsetups causes dpkg to fail, which I'd argue is better than
> ending
> up with a broken (unbootable) systems.  Sure, we could test upgrade
> paths from very old src:cryptsetups, but I'm not personally
> interested
> in working on something that we as a project don't support.  Not keen
> about the extra clutter either.  So right now I'm leaning towards
> closing this as ‘wontfix’. :-P

Ok. Fair enough :)