On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 11:16:02AM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: > Hi Lorenzo, > > the warning of unmerged systems will stop booting soon MUST > be in Debian.NEWS, preinst is the wrong place and it will be > very likely missed. NEWS is a well-known mechanism to convey > important information. > > On the other hand, is this warning acutally required? Once this will > get a real issue, Depend: on usr-is-merged and you should > be set. If you cannot tell when that is, enforce it now, as non-merged > systems are no longer supported anyway.
Small additional information: With https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/09/msg00001.html usrmerge is enforced on all installations. TL:DR: init-system-helpers is Essential: Yes, so you can already now Depend: on usr-is-merged if you want to make sure. (That will also cover where people held init-systems-helpers to an older version) -- tobi