Hi Andreas, sorry this took so long. I was rather busy in June.
On Sunday 29 May 2016 19:00:59, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2016-05-28 22:21, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > I think I have a patch that does this correctly. > > Sounds promising. Be Is it generic enough s.t. it could be reused by > other packages with similar problems? (right now I remember squid > and libreoffice, but I think there were more) It's still a long way to a dh_fixbrokenconffiles, but I could imagine that people with the same problem may want to get inspired by the code. > > > Is it possible with piuparts to test these upgrade paths: > > > > wheezy -> jessie 8.0 -> stretch > > wheezy -> jessie 8.recent -> stretch > > wheezy -> jessie 8.0 -> jessie 8.recent -> stretch > > > > It may be a bit complicated because 8.0 is not on the mirrors > > anymore. > we could use archive.d.org > > > If yes, would you have time to do the testing? Thanks in advance. > > If you help me a bit :-) It will require some scripting ... and > maybe some new piuparts features to be coded - on my side. > > Do you have only one set of new packages for stretch to be tested or > are there new packages targeting jessie as well? I am only planning for a fix in stretch. Puting the same complicated logic into jessie seems too risky to me. > > So the upgrade path will actually be > > wheezy -> jessie X.Y -> stretch+new yes > (or up to wheezy -> jessie X.Y -> jessie X.Z(+new) -> stretch -> > stetch+new) > > (with a "reference" ending in plain stretch, to see if you actually > fixed something) > > Build the packages for amd64 and put them together with a > Packages.gz on some webspace. If it's more than one source package > for a distro - no problem, throw them all into one repo. Version > must be higher than the version in stretch, s.t. I can use stretch > + your repo and have apt do the right thing. I have put them here: deb http://www.sfritsch.de/~stf/794933/2.4.20-3~test1/ ./ Signed with my gpg key (or use https). > Can you find the sources.list entry needed to install jessie 8.0 > from archive.d.org? (Full jessie 8.0, not just a few packages.) With these release dates 2015-04-26 8.0 2015-06-06 8.1 2015-09-05 8.2 I have found: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20150601T041739Z/ You will need to set Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false in the apt config. > > Then I need a list of packages (indivudal ones or sets, from wheezy) > to be tested on these upgrade paths. And there is the option > --with-recommends, if needed. Installing only apache2.2-common on wheezy should do the trick and pull in apache2 when upgrading to jessie. > You'll get some logfiles to analyze in return. Thanks again for your help :) > > Sounds not too complicated :-) > > > Andreas > > PS: Do you want to do tests with user-modified conffiles as well? > These should probably get prompts and "fail". Requires a recipe for > modification. Let's try the unmodified case first. Cheers, Stefan
