Package: debian-security-support Version: 2014.12.17 Severity: normal Hi!
If a user has debian-security-support from wheezy-backports installed then its triggers are run many many times during the wheezy→jessie upgrade. The triggers are run each dpkg run and apt will run dpkg many times during such a large upgrade. The result is that the user is potentially show the "limited security support" dialogue box several times. Unlike debconf preconfiguring, this dialogue is shown during the upgrade not before it, meaning that the dist-upgrade needs even more attention than it otherwise would. I received 9 separate prompts from debian-security-support when I upgraded this machine from wheezy+wheezy-backports to jessie. (while installing a package from wheezy-backports might not be considered to be a supported configuration, this same problem will eventually hit jessie→stretch upgrades) Given debian-security-support is using triggers not apt hooks, I'm not sure there is a nice solution to this problem; however, that doesn't change the fact that having to babysit the dist-upgrade through 9 additional prompts is a quite suboptimal user experience. cheers Stuart -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (550, 'testing-updates'), (550, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debian-security-support depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.55 ii gettext-base 0.19.3-2 debian-security-support recommends no packages. debian-security-support suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
