Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> (2020-04-14):
> I thought having xattr and ACL support in an rsync-udeb did make sense,
> because as you say, if you want to use it to initialize a filesystem
> then you probably want all file attributes to be preserved as much as
> possible. libattr might not be used on some arches depending on the
> glibc support which has provided the syscall wrappers for some time
> now.
> 
> > Guillem, please give me a heads up in case you think this is a good
> > argument for providing libacl1-udeb, in such case I will stop
> > investigating how to build rsync without having it symlinked to the
> > lib.
> 
> Yeah, I think it does, otherwise I'd not have asked for an ack from
> the d-i team. :) This is possibly slightly more overhead when the freeze
> comes around, but several of the packages I maintain already ship udebs,
> so this is soemthing I already need to keep in mind.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guillem

Alright, feel free to go ahead, then.


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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