Bug#977349: Current package does not ensure a smooth upgrade from stable due to breakage of past config and new binary modules.

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
>Am 14.12.2020 um 11:02 teilte Francesco Paolo Lovergine mit:
>
>Hi Paolo,
>
>>After upgrade:
>>
>>$ sudo proftpd -t
>>Checking syntax of configuration file
>>2020-12-14 09:59:09,942 legolas proftpd[5444]: mod_dso/0.5: unable to load 'mod_tls.c'; check to see if '/usr/lib/proftpd/mod_tls.la' exists
>>
>
>Please note that put the new packages into the Recommend line of 
>proftp-basic. So people using a default apt config would get both new 
>packages. At least on one of my installations this worked fine.
>

Not in general, the default policy of installing Recommends could be relaxed 
by users for all packages in /etc/apt/apt.conf or even for single upgrades
by options in apt-get/aptitude. So it would be a policy violation in any case.

>Not sure if this is the correct migration path according to policy.
>
>I'm sorry for the work I've caused!
>
>

Well, there were in any case other details to manage.

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Francesco P. Lovergine