> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes:
Helmut> Luca Boccassi kindly pointed me at config-package-dev
Helmut> though. This is a tool for generating local packages and it
Helmut> also employs dpkg-divert. There is a significant risk of
Helmut> breaking this use case. If we were to
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 02:09:32PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> This is problems we know about now, but it likely is not an exhaustive
> list. This list was mostly guided by Guillem's intuition of what could
> break at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr and I have to say
> that his intui
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 02:09:32PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I noticed that the number of packages shipping non-canonical files is
> relatively small. It's less than 2000 binary packages in unstable and
> their total size is about 2GB. So I looked into binary-patching them and
> attach the resu
Hi Luca,
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 03:29:33PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> After Bookworm ships I plan to propose a policy change to the CTTE and
> policy maintainers to forbid shipping files in the legacy directories
> altogether, followed by a debhelper change to adjust any stragglers
> automatic
Hi Raphaël,
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 12:30:21PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> We don't want to stat all the files in all packages but we could do better:
> if we are about to remove an old file that is available through a
> symlinked directory, we could check the new name of the file and see if
>
Hello,
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023, Simon Richter wrote:
> > This and /bin/sh is the kind of files I'd consider important. And then
> > upon thinking further it became more and more difficult for me to make
> > sense of the objection. On a merged system, we can just move that file
> > to its canonical loc
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