Bug#863479: perl-base should add Breaks: debconf (<< 1.5.57~)

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 03:42:14PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 16:36:50 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
 
> > Package: perl-base
> > Version: 5.24.1-2

> > Technically #786705 is just a harmless warning, but when
> > during a jessie -> stretch upgrade perl-base is upgraded
> > before debconf is upgraded the user might see a lot scary
> > warnings as if something was seriously broken.
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > perl-base should add a Breaks: debconf (<< 1.5.57~).
> 
> Adding Breaks in a core package a couple of weeks before the release
> sounds like a very, very, very bad idea.

Indeed it seems too late in the cycle for this.

Other possible solutions that come to mind:

- silence the warnings during maintainer scripts, much like
   https://sources.debian.net/src/perl/5.24.1-2/debian/patches/debian/squelch-locale-warnings.diff/
  (but it's late for even this IMO)

- update debconf in a jessie point release to minimize the impact
  (this feels right to me, but won't help the immediate stretch upgraders)

Cc'ing Colin. What do you think about the latter option?
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org