Comment 9 for bug 1721626
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 1721626] Re: Remove obsolete versioned dependency on initramfs-tools Edit | #9 |
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:04:58PM -0000, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> While I understand the impact of having console-setup potentially "hang"
> the system on upgrade, this isn't something that happens systematically,
> it's also not a regression introduced in 1.108ubuntu15.4, so what is the
> net benefit in not releasing this SRU? Certainly people might still
> upgrade to $some_version of console-setup and have a hang caused by
> plymouth not responding correctly to plymouth --ping?
> I don't know that console-setup should be verification-fail because of
> that. There's an issue, sure; a regression, maybe; but neither were
> introduced by this particular upload.
A functional regression that triggers on upgrade of the package, and which
causes a non-negligible number of users to have their package upgrade hang
instead of completing, should be addressed before the SRU is released.
I think we should be rolling back ubiquity, not rushing out console-setup.