Re: Status for RT on `Rules-Requires-Root: no` transition

[Niels Thykier]

Hi,

Here is one final update as the freeze is about to start.

 * First and foremost, I consider the transition as over, since there
   are no more packages left that are actionable by me nor is there
   any pending reason to revert the change.


 * Only three known issues remain as affecting testing. These
   are d-i, shim, and the shim arm64 helper. As stated before,
   in all three cases, the maintainer and agreed they would fix
   on their own, since these packages have non-trivial circumstances
   where a "careless" NMU would harm more than help.


 * Since last time, I NMU'ed both bash and lintian. These NMUs have
   been processed and the fix reached testing, marking the end of key
   packages that I can fix.

   I also NMUed ifeffit (non-key package pending auto-removal). That
   NMU as made its way to testing as well keeping ifeffit from being
   auto-removed.

 * On the non-key package side, there are only 5 non-key packages that
   still have a transition both open. All 5 have multiple RC bugs, so
   they are kept out of testing due to an unrelated issue in addition
   to the transition bug.

   Note 2 of them are older versions of gcc cross that we probably do
   not want in this stable release anyhow. I suspect they should be
   removed from unstable down the line.




Best regards,
Niels

Thanks for your time and for helping us to make Trixie be rootless by default! :)

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