On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 10:42, Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 10, Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I ran into this issue today after freshly installing a Hurd VM using > > <URL: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/stable/hurd-i386/iso-cd/debian-hurd-2021-i386-NETINST-1.iso > > > > > and trying to upgrade it to unstable. > > > It was a pain to get the upgrade going, so I strongly suggest thus > > usrmerge bug is fixed in unstable soon. > I am in no hurry to make invasive changes to the usrmerge algorithm to > fix a niche unofficial port which did not care to test it for years. > > For a start, I would like to have a Hurd VM image which I could use for > testing. But the real issue here is not introducing regressions on the > non-Hurd systems.
Making it conditional on running on Hurd as Michael suggested should be safe, no? We can add hard asserts to make really sure we get it right Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
