Am Freitag, 23. November 2018, 14:47:28 CET schrieb Stephan Seitz: > On Fr, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:04:05 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> And how do you revert this change? As far as I have understand you can’t > remove the usrmerge package and have your system in the old state again. Making an image of the whole hard drive is always a good idea. > As others in the thread have mentioned they don’t see the risk with new > installations but with old systems with different admins and third-party > software. > Changes are always coming with a risk. However, ones who fear, should try on a canary. This is, what I would do. Ok, this might be a little more work, but it is is worth. > Right, and it means he has enough to do and doesn’t want to debug the > usrmerge. I don’t want to have a usrmerge at a dist-upgrade. You don’t > really know the sequence of the package updates. I think the risk is too > big to have a partial upgraded system. > So, that is, where "testing" is standing for. Testing before release.... > If the update of 2% of our systems won’t work because of failing usrmerge > I would be asked if Debian is the right distribution. Good point. However, this should be told to Microsoft admins or their deciders. > > Shade and sweet water! > > Stephan I think, we have now 2-3 moths for testing until freeze begins. Shouldn't this time not beeing well used, to eliminate all issues? Best Hans
