Control: severity 843073 important On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 18:37:52 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 16:24:32 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Important change in this release of the installer > > ================================================= > > > > * debootstrap now defaults to merged-/usr, that is with /bin, /sbin, > > /lib* being symlinks to their counterpart in /usr (more details on: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/09/msg00269.html). > > This has caused build issues with dpkg-shlibdeps (#843073) on some > architectures, which was a known problem (#810499) at the time of > the default switch. :( > > As I'm told the buildds regenerate the chroots every couple of weeks (?), > which means several of those buildds will most probably start failing, > I'd appreciate if the proponents of this change could either help > Felipe Sateler (many thanks to him for working on this!) to track down > and find an acceptable solution for dpkg-shlibdeps, or revert the change > in debootstrap.
Ok, Mattia Rizzolo tells me (thanks!) that it's actually twice per week, and that the debootstrap used is from jessie so this should not be such a big deal for the Debian buildds. I'm thus lowering the severity. All other comments still apply though. > Otherwise I guess I might just reassign the dpkg-shlibdeps bug to both > usrmerge and debootstrap. Thanks, Guillem
