Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base

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Subject	Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base
Date	Sun, 04 May 2025 19:20:01 +0200
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On Sun, 04 May 2025 at 15:58:55 +0000, Bill Allombert wrote:
>Le Sat, May 03, 2025 at 04:08:55PM +0200, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
>> I'm proposing to add a linux-run-hooks command to the linux-base package
>> [1] that will then be used in all maintainer scripts of linux-image
>> packages [2].  This requires upgrading the current Depends on linux-base
>> to Pre-Depends.
>
>Will that not require a versionned Pre-Depends ?

I would assume so.

>In that case this is very likely to break upgrade paths.

How so? linux-base has virtually no dependencies - only debconf, which 
is high-Priority and in practice transitively Essential (via util-linux 
and libpam-modules).

Even if linux-base required trixie's debconf, there would be a valid 
upgrade order:

     (debconf's deps) -> debconf -> linux-base -> linux-image-whatever

(But in practice bookworm's debconf is declared as being adequate for 
trixie's linux-base, and debconf itself has no non-Essential dependencies
either.)

     smcv

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Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-05-03 16:10 +0200
  Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2025-05-04 18:00 +0200
    Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-05-04 18:50 +0200
    Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2025-05-04 19:20 +0200
  Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2025-05-06 17:40 +0200
    Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-05-13 22:50 +0200

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