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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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