On Mon, 26 Jun 2017, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Because when I wrote that script, I was probably not aware that > > --apt-distupgrade was the default. > > so does the existence of that option help your use-case somehow?
I modified Kali's build script to pass it, yes. But my request remains. > > I understand this. But you can react differently to the failure in the > > various places where you are calling "$resolver->distupgrade". > > What do you mean exactly here? I mean that you can turn it into a warning in Sbuild/Build.pm and an error into bin/sbuild-update. > So how do you want to solve the issue now for kali? By just passing > --no-apt-distupgrade and upgrading the chroots manually from time to time like > the Debian and Ubuntu buildds do it? That's what I will do, yes. But I believe that this should be avoidable and letting sbuild dist-upgrade the chroot should have been enough and should not have the current downsides. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/