* László Böszörményi (GCS) <g...@debian.org> [240829 20:55]: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 11:14 PM Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > Yeah, I agree. Do you want to upload a new src:fuse package dropping > > the fuse binary package? > > fuse3 already Provides: fuse, so that should be fine. > The question is, how many dependent packages use the binaries from > the fuse package or just depend on it.
A handful. But given the Provides: and the compat symlinks, packages depending on fuse today do not need to change. > Sure, fuse3 provides fuse but > the names of the binaries are different. For example scripts need to > update fusermount call to fusermount3 call. fuse3 already provides the old names as symlinks. The options of fusermount <> fusermount3 and mount.fuse <> mount.fuse3 are the same. > As such, it might be > better to ping maintainers of those packages about dropping the fuse > binary for testing their packages first. Then after a month actually > drop it. > I was informed that debian-edu and grub-mount-udeb still use > fuse-udeb, but in Trixie packages I don't see that anymore. I can drop > that as well in a month. Yeah, this is resolved. > How do these sound there? I think you can drop both the udeb and the "fuse" package immediately. Chris
