Control: tags -1 moreinfo (This time sending to the correct bug ;-)
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. There is a lintian warning: W debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version 2.1.2-14 [usr/share/doc/getty-run/NEWS.Debian.gz:1] Possibly this NEWS file can go, the version is older than old-old-stable. 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 -- tobi
