On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 12:16:21AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > [ Tests ] > The reproduction recipe in #994042 is worth testing with this change, > though that isn't sufficient. To test this bug directly, the simplest > approach is to install whiptail and/or dialog before an upgrade from > buster to bullseye, but then deliberately break them somehow (for > example by using dpkg-divert to replace them with shell scripts that > write something to standard error and then exit non-zero). > > At the moment I've only done some very basic tests along these lines, > but I'll do full upgrade tests before uploading, assuming this request > is accepted. With a point release coming up soon I thought I'd better > get this request in now.
I've now done buster-to-bullseye upgrade tests after first installing my patch, both with and without deliberately breaking whiptail/dialog, and it behaves as expected in both cases. (As explained in my original bug report, it doesn't actually fix the upgrade issue in #994042, but would fix other similar situations if we run into just the wrong ordering.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
