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Re: [PATCH] templates: Reinstate unused version comparison functions w/


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: [PATCH] templates: Reinstate unused version comparison functions w/ warning
Date: 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.
>
> 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.

I will add these two paragraphs to the commit message.

Otherwise Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>...

Daniel



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