Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> [Release Team member hat on]
>
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:34:39 +0800 Sean Whitton 
> <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>> It's an RC bug regardless; we always support partial upgrades, and
>> therefore can't rely on package upgrade order like that.
>
>
> Correct. We even suggest doing the partial upgrade in the Release Notes 
> before running the full-upgrade.
>

Ack.

>> Given the freeze and dh-elpa's status as a toolchain package, we need to
>> handle this very carefully.
>
> For my understanding, dh-elpa is used both during package build and 
> package install on user systems, right? And this change is (supposed to 
> be) only active during the install run on user systems?
>

For build phase, dh-elpa is mostly used for detecting and running tests
(ERT or Buttercup), not the actual building (which is skipped most of
the time).

> When preparing to fix this, can you please prepare a version which only 
> addresses fixes we need to get into trixie.
>

The proposed patch is a targeted fix indeed (plus minor comment fixes).
Still awaiting reviews.

> Paul
>

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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