On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 18:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2022-09-27 Zack Weinberg <z...@owlfolio.org> wrote: > [...] > > What I am asking for is a schedule change: specifically, that the > > merged /usr transition not be allowed to proceed past the status > > quo as of two weeks ago (i.e. *before* init-system-helpers added a > > dependency on usrmerge|usr-is-merged) until after the dpkg bugs are > > fixed to the satisfaction of the dpkg maintainers. > [...] > > Hello Zack, > > Afaiui the only thing the change two weeks caused is an increased > percentage of usrmerged Debian installations. > > Afaict the problem is unchanged: There is a very large number of > usrmerged systems (every system installed with bullseye installer or > newer unless some very specific steps were taken to avoid this) which > are prone to bugs due to dpkg not having been changed *first*. This > number is of usrmerged systems is so large that we cannot mark them > as unsupported ("Please reinstall"). Whether this percentage is 25% > or 90% does not matter.
You can easily revert any system having usrmerge installed with dpkg- fsys-usrunmess. This should be known by all Debian users, by some suitable channel. And for example the latest init-system-helpers release should add this to the package description (if not reverted). This applies to other present and future packages having usrmerge as a dependency too. Thanks!