Package: tech-ctte X-Debbugs-Cc: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name>, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de>, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>, debian-d...@lists.debian.org, debian-de...@lists.debian.org
On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 14:36 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ansgar <ans...@43-1.org> writes: > > Debian going out of its way to tell derivative users to switch back from > > merged-/usr to split-/usr is the *opposite* of trying to make things as > > smooth for them as possible. > > Yes, I agree with that part and I think I objected to that at the time. > Nonetheless, one bad decision doesn't mean that it is Debian policy that > we don't care about derivatives or their users. I think we made a mistake > there which is not in alignment with our ideals or our goals. We should > try to reverse that mistake, not double down on it. Cool, then let's ask tech-ctte. Dear ctte, please consider overruling the dpkg maintainer to include the patch from #994388[1]. Thanks, Ansgar [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/994388#397
