Hi everyone. Please see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737634#117
It appears that dpkg is now going to be fixed, albeit with a bunch of unpleasantness in the documentation, and only for forky. Meanwhile, the dpkg maintainer filed a bug against policy, #1107137. That report was well-founded (albeit unpleasantly worded), since policy has the same conflation that the TC rejected in 2024. I have proposed patches to policy in that bug. I think that conversation can continue there. I still think it would have been good to have this fixed in trixie. The original one-line revert would have been very low risk from a purely technical point of view. However, I doubt the TC will want to try to clear a path through the nontechnical obstacles between this improvement and trixie. So, to be clear, I'm withdrawing my request for the TC to authorise an NMU, or to express any opinion to the Release Team. I still get the feeling that any exercise of governance or oversight is Debian is widely regarded as cataclysmic. I have been criticised here and in #1107137, as if my requests were unreasonable or obviously beyond the pale. This is very uncomfortable for me, and this kind of thing is hardly going to encourage others to try to resolve longstanding problems using our official processes. So I would appreciate at the very least some explicit recognition that my requests to to the TC, in this bug, were appropriate. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, 9that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
