Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org> writes:
> (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)
If it wasn't supported, I don't think src:debian-security-support would
have information regarding security support of packages in squeeze and
wheezy?
> 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.
Well, it's since switched to dpkg hooks[1], but that doesn't really help
here (and presumably makes this WORSE when apt has dpkg postpone
triggers as much as possible, though that isn't the default [yet?]).
Apt's DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs hook does look like it would help a lot;
here's how apt-listbugs does it:
,----[ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs ]
| // Check all packages whether they has critical bugs before they are
installed.
| // If you don't like it, comment it out.
| DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";};
| DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
| DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
| // AptListbugs::IgnoreRegexp "FTBFS";
`----
Unfortunately, the hook protocol documentation appears to be rather
difficult to find ...
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/762031
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