On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 16:27:12 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> [ Reason ]
> Part of the transition to merged-/usr, and more specifically, allowing
> us to stop shipping files in trixie whose physical path on disk does
> not match their path in the dpkg database due to directory aliasing.
>
> This change needs to be in bookworm (and bullseye, and maybe buster)
> before that process can continue, because official buildds run debootstrap
> from stable (or older).
>
> I also took the opportunity to backport changes that make the autopkgtests
> pass.
>
> [ Impact ]
> If not accepted, trixie will continue to be stuck in a
> mostly-but-not-entirely merged-/usr limbo, with the moratorium from #1035831
> remaining in place.
I'm aware that we're getting close to the deadline for 12.2 and 11.8,
so I've uploaded the proposed version to bookworm-proposed-updates for
easier testing and review. Luca: the proposed version and a signed tag
are available from my fork on salsa (I am not able to push to the d-i
repository for debootstrap). I uploaded with dgit, so the git tree and
the .dsc have been verified to be identical.
If this version is not accepted for whatever reason, then I think we
should treat version 1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1 as having been used, and skip
ahead to 1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u2 for any subsequent bookworm update.
(And if there is a problem with having this version in bookworm-pu for
whatever reason, I'm happy to upload a +deb12u2 that is identical to
1.0.128+nmu2 except for the changelog.)
Thanks,
smcv
