Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-09-01 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 09:23, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > At least three DDs have asked you to stop. Why do you continue? > > In all of your mails to this bug, I've seen little attempt at trying to > understand other participants. In a project as large as Debian, it is to > be expected

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-09-01 Thread Ansgar
Hi Ian, On Wed, 2023-08-30 at 12:52 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Debian has historically been simply much more reliable. Could you quantify this? This is not my experience. As far as I understand you often use non-standard configurations (split-/usr, non-standard init system, ...) which might

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-09-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Luca, At least three DDs have asked you to stop. Why do you continue? In all of your mails to this bug, I've seen little attempt at trying to understand other participants. In a project as large as Debian, it is to be expected that disagreement arises. That's not the end of the world, but it

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-08-31 Thread Luca Boccassi
ntable number of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Arch, SUSE, Yocto, Gentoo, etc. installations, for a decade in some of those cases. > Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more > messages]"): > > In order to prefer Debian ove

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-08-30 Thread Ian Jackson
is OK to refer to files by the "wrong" name, which cannot even be stated clearly, let along succinctly. Despite all this, apparently when we argue for continued reliance on this disproven assertion we go back to imprecise statements. Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-28 Thread Philip Hands
Helmut Grohne writes: ... > As such, my expectation is that moving from where we are to your idea > is not any easier than moving from a post-DEP-17 state. Therefore, I > do not see any need to delay DEP-17 work. I've been wondering about this possibility too. If a symlink flowerbed is where we

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 at 11:30, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Dear Luca, > > On 27/08/2023 03:16, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > [things] > > You've already been asked by a couple of people to moderate your tone in > this thread. I appreciate there is a lot of frustration around > /usr-merge, but your

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 at 18:03, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > TL;DR: I think I understand one of Ian's points. I explain, but do not > believe it is compelling as an argument to switch direction. > > > "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: > >> I think "package management" is the wrong term here.

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Sam Hartman
TL;DR: I think I understand one of Ian's points. I explain, but do not believe it is compelling as an argument to switch direction. > "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: >> I think "package management" is the wrong term here. It's not >> just our tools and packages that are

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Ian, On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > And, the approach being taken very seriously privileges Debian itself, > > > and those

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Ansgar
Hi Matthew, On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 11:30 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Any such consideration must be mindful of the fact that the majority of > Debian installs are now /usr-merged, which means that the complexity of > unwinding such installs has to be a heavy factor in thinking about >

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
Dear Luca, On 27/08/2023 03:16, Luca Boccassi wrote: [things] You've already been asked by a couple of people to moderate your tone in this thread. I appreciate there is a lot of frustration around /usr-merge, but your contributions are not helping with that at all. Nor do they help us have

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-26 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 at 11:27, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > And, the approach being taken very seriously privileges Debian itself, > > > and those well-staffed

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > And, the approach being taken very seriously privileges Debian itself, > > and those well-staffed derivatives able to do the necessary transition > > auditing