Thanks for keeping this open. Packages should really not contain "time-bombs" like this.
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Holger Levsen wrote: > control: severity -1 normal > control: retitle -1 debian-security-support needs to be adapted to each new > Debian release > thanks > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:34:44AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > As if I wouldn't have written it before... o.O > > talk is cheap, show me the code ;) Just make the error to be non-fatal instead of exiting with error and breaking the whole packaging system. Only as a proof of concept, I believe the patch below would be better than nothing, but of course you might want to do it with gettext and debconf to do it properly. Thanks. --- a/check-support-status.in +++ b/check-support-status.in @@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ fi if [ "$DEBIAN_VERSION" -lt "$DEB_LOWEST_VER_ID" ] || [ "$DEBIAN_VERSION" -gt "$DEB_NEXT_VER_ID" ] ; then eval_gettext "Unknown DEBIAN_VERSION \$DEBIAN_VERSION. Valid values from \$DEB_LOWEST_VER_ID and \$DEB_NEXT_VER_ID"; echo - exit 1 + echo "Warning: This package does nothing with the current installed version of Debian" + sleep 5 + exit 0 fi LIST=