Re: [Tails-dev] ASP offline issue: advice needed

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Autor: sajolida
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Betreff: Re: [Tails-dev] ASP offline issue: advice needed
Alan:
> A bug was found in Additional Software Packages (ASP) that make the
> install fail if APT lists are updated outside ASP and they reference new
> version of ASP installed packages. This is likely to happen every new
> Tails release. This is now solved when the user is connecting to the
> network after the failed installation (#16566).
>
> I think the remaining issue (#16567) is for this scenario: I'm online
> preparing Tails ASP for a specific task. I'm running apt update or
> starting Synaptic and there are new versions of packages that I already
> configured as ASP. At this point everything looks good.
>
> Then I restart my Tails offline, and some of my ASP fail to install.
>
> Note that of I go online at some point, the situation would be solved by
> case C (#16567).
>
> I don't know if we consider this as a corner case or not, and thus if we
> want to solve it at at what priority.


So if I understand correctly, it means that this bug in Additional
Software would affect only hardcore offline/airgapped users. This is
none of our personas and thus we should treat this as low priority.

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sajolida