On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 15:47:17 +0200, Ansgar wrote: > On Sun, 2022-03-27 at 14:34 +0200, Ansgar wrote: > > I think the warning emitted by dpkg's postinst script about Debian's > > default filesystem layout is not appropriate and at least partially > > misleading. Several other people agreed with this sentiment. > > To clarify due to misunderstanding that seem to have happened: > > - Merged-/usr is planned to become the only supported layout for Debian > in the future, cf. [1].
Perhaps I indeed misunderstood something, but this seemed pretty clear to me (from [T]: - Because Debian 11 installations with the non-merged-/usr layout already exist, all packages in Debian 12 should be installable onto a non-merged-/usr system along with their dependencies, and work correctly on the resulting system. - The same expectations apply to packages uploaded to testing/unstable during the development cycle that will lead to Debian 12. [T] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/10/msg00190.html> > - Most Debian derivates will probably follow, some have already done so > before Debian itself. So showing this warning in Debian derivates by > default seems not a good solution; if a derivative wants this warning, > they can patch it back in. I'm not sure how this is a concern for Debian, TBH. If derivatives show no interest in it and disable it, I'm happy to apply the same upstream (as I've done for Ubuntu), I also monitor downstream patches and try to merge stuff from them when relevant. If there'd be multiple removals, I'd probably ponder making it opt-in or similar. Regards, Guillem