On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 03:23:09 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 05:49:24 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > So, as part of damage control I'm going to: > > > > - include the Build-Tainted-By patches into dpkg 1.19.5. > > Done. > > > - include a bug-script in dpkg for reportbug to report whether the > > system has been broken by the merged-/usr-via-symlinks hack. > > Done. > > > - file a bug on reportbug to request reporting that for all packages. > > Done. <https://bugs.debian.org/923090> > > > - file a bug on base-installer to request an option to install > > non-broken systems due to merged-/usr-via-symlinks. > > Done. <https://bugs.debian.org/923091> > > > I'm also pondering whether to implement checks for the broken > > merged-/usr-via-symlinks within «dpkg --audit», even though I don't > > really want to, as that would imply hardcoding Debian-specific > > pathnames in there. :( > > I still have to think about this one. :/ > > > And I'm probably going to end up writing a unmerge-usr-via-symlinks > > script so that people with damaged systems can go back somewhat to a > > sane state, and to open the possibility for a fully automated migration > > to a proper and correct merged-/usr w/o all the problems above. > > And I might need to start on this soon enough. :( > > In addition, given that most probably Debian buster will end up > installing broken systems by default. I might end up also looking into > generating fixed minimal netinst images or mini netboot images with a > fixed debootstrap, or I guess just cdebootstrap present which has > sane behavior. But I would definitely not be able host the artifacts > for those. :/
Oh, also mmdebstrap was defaulting to the broken merged-/usr-via-symlinks, for which I filed <https://bugs.debian.org/914915>, which has been fixed now by disabling it completely! I'm planning on switching all my debootstrap usage to mmdebstrap anyway because it's superior in any conceivable way. :) I could also see trying to get that forked d-i use mmdebstrap, also for its speed. Thanks, Guillem
