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Re: [PATCH] templates: Reinstate unused version comparison functions w/
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Julian Andres Klode |
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Re: [PATCH] templates: Reinstate unused version comparison functions w/ warning |
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Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:51:59 +0100 |
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.
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> 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.
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.
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.
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