Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)
Matthew Garrett writes:
> With my non-CTTE hat on, I think this is a demonstration that Debian
> *does* care about derivatives. It's important to ensure that derivatives
> are aware of the subtle interactions between dpkg and usrmerge,
> otherwise they may suffer from hard to diagnose issues on upgrades. The
> message from dpkg says nothing about reverting to split-/usr, and
> instead points at a wiki page. If our documentation on how to avoid
> these issues is incomplete (ie, if we're only describing how to avoid it
> by using split-/usr rather than describing the mitigations we've imposed
> within Debian to avoid triggering the issues), perhaps a better approach
> would be to improve that documentation? We don't benefit our users by
> pretending there isn't a problem here.
Okay, I followed your recommendation and added a small warning to the
FAQ: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ?action=diff&rev1=78&rev2=79
Ansgar
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