Dear release team, On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 07:29:06PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > We would like to remove the legacy usr-is-merged/usrmerge packages from > testing/unstable, but debootstrap in bookworm still pulls usr-is-merged > in manually and fails if it cannot be found. As you know, it is no > longer necessary in testing/unstable as the work is done in base-files. > > I have uploaded debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u2 to bookworm-p-u with > this change backported from unstable. debdiff attached.
Please allow me to second the request. At this time, I am not sure whether we will manage to remove usrmerge in the trixie cycle. Even if we are not, it would be very useful if bookworm's debootstrap were to be able to bootstrap forky and this is change is required there. I see a small risk of the change in matching having unintended effects on derivatives that disguise themselves as Debian and have not yet picked up the merge via base-files. I therefore recommend waiting with accepting this change until it has survived in trixie for at least two weeks. Not sure we notice as the failure path should be installing usrmerge via init-system-helpers. Helmut
