Bug#968458: makes crossgrader completely broken, bumping severity
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.
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