Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)
On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 20:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> After discussing this at our monthly meeting, we concluded that the
> technical committee isn't going to take action on this at the moment.
> There's a legitimate technical consideration behind the warning, and
> it's necessary for derivatives to ensure that they handle the
> associated scenarios properly.
Okay, I take that as "Debian doesn't care about derivatives".
Suggesting users to revert to split-/usr *will* break stuff for users
once more code Debian assumes merged-/usr.
> While those underlying technical issues exist, we
> think it's premature for the committee to intervene on this specific
> issue.
Okay, I guess the very long drama about this last year was not
sufficiently long and we did not discuss it in sufficient detail.
I'm a bit disappointed how the ctte appears to do as much as they can
to avoid deciding on this :-(
Ansgar
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