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Re: [PATCH] templates: Reinstate unused version comparison functions w/
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Daniel Kiper |
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Re: [PATCH] templates: Reinstate unused version comparison functions w/ warning |
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Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:46:28 +0100 |
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:51:59PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:42:55PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > Revert "templates: Remove unused version comparison functions"
> > and add a warning to the functions that they are deprecated.
> >
> > Removing the functions directly caused a lot of upgrade issues
> > w/ custom user scripts that called the functions. In Debian and
> > Ubuntu, grub-mkconfig is invoked as a post-installation script
> > and would fail, causing upgrades to fail halfway through and
> > putting the package manager into an inconsistent state.
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> FWIW, we get one bug per 2 weeks basically, for an interim
> Ubuntu release which generally does not receive much usage,
> that is a high number.
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> The proposal is to pick this for 2.12 and directly after
> the release remove it again. Then users will have time
> to fix their scripts without systems breaking immediately.
I will add these two paragraphs to the commit message.
Otherwise Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>...
Daniel