On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 11:30:24AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hello Adrian,
Hi Andreas,
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:52:12PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > If a member of the release team states that this is acceptable
> > for a stable release, then that's how it is.
>
> If the release team don't want something to be part of testing they
> have the power to just remove it. No bug reports needed.
> Also the release team decides if something is release critical or
> not. Until they have spoken on it, the what the maintainer says
> goes (which is also usually the response you'll get from the
> release team).
thanks for the suggestion, I'll request a release team decision.
> (I think that at this point we will have to support merged-/usr
> for stretch no matter what happens. There are already installed
> systems which got merged-/usr from the start and other systems
> that has already been converted with usrmerge. Removing one tool
> to do further conversions will not change that fact.)
No system running stable Debian only is supposed to have merged /usr,
and using experimental features between releases is nothing that has
to be supported in the next stable release.
Also note that noone is suggesting to break existing systems with merged
/usr. If it works for you with the subset of packages you are using in
stretch today, that will continue working.
>...
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
cu
Adrian
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