Hi Russ, On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 13:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ansgar <ans...@43-1.org> writes: > > As far as I understand, we do explicitly *not* care about our > > derivatives with regard to merged-/usr as some packages in Debian > > recommend users to move *away* from merged-/usr to split-/usr on > > derivatives, i.e., to an unsupported fs layout. > > Caring about them isn't the same thing as doing everything they want. We > can both try to make things as smooth for them as possible and still make > design decisions about Debian that they may disagree with or that may make > some property they want to maintain difficult or impossible. It's the > sort of decision we have to make on a case-by-case basis.
Debian going out of its way to tell derivative users to switch back from merged-/usr to split-/usr is the *opposite* of trying to make things as smooth for them as possible. I asked the ctte to consider not telling derivative users to revert from merged-/usr and was told me that "we [ctte] would not consider this [change] to be in line with our existing decisions" (informally). I take that as explicitly not caring that we break derivative users' systems. Ansgar
