Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous

[Russ Allbery]

Julian Andres Klode <jak at debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 07:52:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:

>> In my opinion, it is really way too late for this.  If you want to
>> discourage people from using update-manager in wheezy, a patch to the
>> release notes would be most helpful.  Otherwise, let's not waste time
>> on a rather disruptive change when it can wait till the start of
>> jessie.

> This seems like a much better idea, yes. I just hope enough people
> read those.

In this particular upgrade, I think there's some possibility (depending on
whether we can track down all the odd dependency loops or not) that people
who don't read the release notes are going to get the infamous "could not
perform immediate configuration" error from apt.  So chances may be higher
this upgrade than many.  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>