On 2024-08-01 09:37:54 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 14:47:16 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > No, even for unstable, maintainers should ensure that packages are > > upgraded in the right order. > > Once again, here is my understanding of the current situation: > > 1) A new procps package was uploaded, which no longer has /etc/sysctl.conf. > > 2) A new systemd package was uploaded, which removes the now-dangling > /etc/sysctl.d/99-whatever symlink. > > 3) It was discovered that the new procps package fails to remove the > existing /etc/sysctl.conf file when upgrading. This was filed as > a bug, and will be fixed at some point.
NO!!! This is (3) before (2). https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076352 "procps: leftover conffiles" on 14 July. systemd (256.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium [...] * Drop /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf symlink procps no longer ships /etc/sysctl.conf (Closes: #1076190) [...] on 24 July, i.e. 10 days later! BTW, in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076190 "Upgraded systems will continue to have an obsolete conffile named /etc/sysctl.conf" so the silent breakage was known and done on purpose. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
