On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 11:27:36 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > usr-is-merged now enforces a merged layout in trixie and unstable. If > you are faced with failures from debootstrap consider updating your > debootstrap from bullseye-updates or bookworm-updates.
I think that should say bookworm-proposed-updates or bullseye-proposed-updates. The updated versions were ready before the 12.2/11.8 point releases, but unfortunately couldn't be reviewed in time to be included; instead, they will be included in Debian 12.3 (2023-12-09) and 11.9 (early 2024). bookworm-backports also has a suitable version. (Packages that have been accepted by the release team for the next point release only go into -proposed-updates. The corresponding -updates suites are only used if the release team specifically allows a package to be added to them to fast-track it onto end-user systems, which has not been done in this case.) > Please upload restructuring changes to experimental. ... > This advice is valid for the entire trixie cycle. This is good advice regardless of the /usr merge or not, and I think we should generally be testing restructuring in experimental before uploading it to unstable, even after trixie. This is doubly true if NEW packages are involved, because uploading those to unstable means the maintainer no longer has control over whether/when they start a transition (the ftp team might approve them at any time, whether it's a convenient time or not), and after they're accepted they will need a source-only re-upload before migration can happen. smcv