* Tomi Junnila

| Note that if MailMan fails the upgrade (so that it can be retried), this
| will fail upgrading from edgy to feisty.

Yes.

| The presence of shunted messages should not fail the upgrade, a better
| option would be to hold until the user can manually handle the
| situation, then continue directly.

That is not possible to do based on how dpkg works.  The reason for
failing is you can then fix the problem by unshunting or deleting the
messages.  Later, you might well not be able to unshunt them, since
the on-disk format is not stable.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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 Upgrades fail with a message about "Old queue files present"
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