On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 23:10 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 02:15:31AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> >
> > The latter is what brought us into a situation where it is no
> > longer safe to
> > move files between packages and between aliased directories in the
> > same
> > upgrade, and because users will be expected to upgrade in a single
> > step
> > between stable releases, that means these two types of changes are
> > mutually
> > exclusive for the entire release cycle.
>
> So with the goal of trying to enumerate possible solutions, it sounds
> some combination of:
>
> (a) disallowing moving problematic files between packages, with
> possibly some
> QA tools to enforce this
> (b) keeping the next release cycle *short*, say only a year
> (c) requiring that dpkg be upgraded first, and having dpkg and
> related tools understand the concept of usrmerge and the
> fact that /{bin,lib,sbin} and /usr/{bin,lib,sbin} are identical
> for usrmerged systems
>
> might be possible paths forward. Do you agree? What are other
> possible solutions?
>
> - TedI've asked this before - I might be very wrong, but I was under the impression that having both /bin/foo and /usr/bin/foo (which is the example mentioned) was already considered RC-buggy and needed fixing? Is that not the case? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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