Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, May 05, 2026 at 11:12:51PM +0200, Ferenc Wágner wrote: > >> The new upstream release of screen fixes a bug, on which the autopkgtest >> of tcvt depended (see #1134413). The tcvt autopkgtest was fixed in >> unstable, but now tcvt can not migrate to testing because its fixed >> autopkgtest fails with the buggy screen in testing. And screen can not >> migrate either, because its tcvt reverse dependency fails its old >> autopkgtest with the new screen. Please help us overcome this issue. > > You can overcome this limitation yourself by declaring Breaks. I'm not > sure if both Breaks are necessary. Consider adding Breaks: screen (<< > fixedversion) to tcvt. Then, the autopkgtest should be using the sid > version of screen and also cause britney to not migrate tcvt before > migrating screen. Possibly, screen needs reverse Breaks. At that point, > britney should notice that you can only migrate them together and > proceed.
Hi Helmut, Thanks for the advice! Declaring that tcvt breaks screen is somewhat a stretch, though. Don't you think that versioning the screen dependency in debian/tests/control would be a clearer way to unblock the migration? -- Cheers, Feri.
