Hi Helmut, On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 20:04 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > We vehemently disagree on how severe those bugs are, > but at least we've stopped selling them as features it seems.
Could you please give examples where such "selling as a feature" happened? Please point to somewhere where someone said the file disappearing bug (w/ moving between packages & locations) is a feature or similar things. > So sooner or later, we want dpkg fixed. Now the ctte cannot tell > anyone to fix dpkg. All it can do is select between available > options. Well, the ctte was asked about the warning added[1]. It has so far not chosen between available options, such as removal of these warnings. (I think we do derivates a disservice if dpkg emits these warnings there.) [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2022/03/msg00017.html > And while Guillem has his own reasons on disliking the existing patch > everyone else basically agrees that it is not ready for other > reasons. If that patch were to be decided upon by the ctte in its > current form, the answer would most likely be "no", not due to change > in principle, but due to the patch being unfinished. So talk about that when it happens? As far as I can tell from the last meeting agenda, the technical committee doesn't seem to see much technical issues with usrmerge. Ansgar
