Hi,

Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:27:17AM +0200, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> my mail from last week didn't receive any feedback.
>> 
>> Let's look at this another way: I think this boils down to the question
>> what kind of support we will need to give after the release. My take is
>> that it will be either:
>> 
>> a) users where the upgrade didn't go through because they didn't affirm
>>    that their systems are fit for the upgrade of the bacula database
>>    (very easy and quick to fix).
>
> Note that this is only true, _if_ the upgrade is aborted before 
> anything else was done by APT. If APT started installing packages, 
> and there are ordering issues, users can very well end up in a 
> situation that is very hard to recover from. 
>
> One example that was found is #1108193 and fixed.
> Another is #1109119, with currently no resolution in sight.
> As such aborting upgrades seems very risky this time.
>
> Chris

should we recommend upgrading to bacula from backports before the
dist-upgrade in the release notes? That will perform the database
upgrade and seems like an easy workaround.

Regards

Carsten

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