On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 09:04:46AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >Control: severity -1 normal > >On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 04:57:41PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >> Control: severity -1 serious >> >> Hi! >> Because of this lacking M-A setting, crossgrader always fails in bullseye. >> It had a hack to workaround this in buster, but for some reason that hack >> is no longer working. >> >> I've discussed a bit with the maintainer in #989236. >> >> Thus, that package is broken for all users, which is RC. However, I find >> little point in trying to debug why the hack fails -- fixing the real >> cause is so much simpler. > >Go fight it out with the release team. > >I do not consider cross-grading to be a sensible, or supported >operation. There is no support in APT for cross-grading, and scripts to >do so are hackish at best. It's certainly not release critical.
Nobody is asking you to support anything here in apt, just mark the python-apt-common as M-A: foreign. Do you have a good reason not to do that? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com “Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn’t happen.” -- Mikko Hypponen (https://twitter.com/mikko/)
