reassign 927450 debian-security-support
retitle 927450 debian-security-support should know that the next stable is 
Debian 10
affects 927450 base-files
thanks

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 04:01:05AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Yeah it's definitely that strange hardcoded part in:
> /usr/bin/check-support-status:
> 
> > DEB_LOWEST_VER_ID=7
> > # Version ID for next Debian stable
> > DEB_NEXT_VER_ID=9

This is clearly wrong and not a bug in base-files. The next Debian
stable is Debian 10.

> > …
> > 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
> > fi
> 
> if one makes something like this one should have probably declared a
> Conflicts against any base-files package >9.
> 
> 
> Not sure what the correct is to handle this in the BTS... of course it
> should be assigned to debian-security-support,

Done with this message.

> but then people who
> upgrade won't notice the problem... "affects base-files" isn't the case
> and wouldn't probably make it show up either.

I'm adding "affect base-files" so that people see this bug in the BTS
page for base-files and nobody thinks the problem is in base-files,
but just for that.

> Guess the only thing the BTS allows is to have a 2nd bug at debian-
> security-support and make this one a dummy-bug (which also block
> transition to testing) blocked by the other.

No need, this bug is enough once reassigned.

Thanks a lot for the report.

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