On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 15:39 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On 2022-09-28 3:29 PM, Ansgar wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 15:22 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > On 2022-09-28 3:06 PM, Ansgar wrote: > > > > Your requirement is that a system must *never* become > > > > unbootable in > > > > *all* of these states. > > > > > > Yes, and furthermore I think Debian has required this for many, > > > many > > > years. > > > > No, it never did. > > I told you why I think it does. Unless you can provide _evidence_ > that it doesn't, you're not going to change my mind.
Policy makes a special guarantee about essential packages: +--- | Essential is defined as the minimal set of functionality that must | be available and usable on the system at all times, even when | packages are in the “Unpacked” state. +--- Please provide evidence that the even harder guarantees you demand are made somewhere for a much larger set of packages that are critical for boot. And are actually fulfilled in practice. Ansgar
