On Thu, 2022-03-24 at 09:12 +0100, Ansgar wrote: > On Tue, 2022-03-15 at 15:14 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > This escalation seems in direct contradiction to the tech-ctte > > decision in 994388. > > It already confuses users, for example:
It was pointed out in #-devel that there are bugs in `dpkg-fsys- usrunmess` that might make systems no longer boot, at least #1008316 and #1008478. As I suspect more people will try running it due to the newly introduced warning by dpkg's postinst script, I feel this will needlessly break user systems. While we can't avoid all such bugs in programs to move from/to merged-/usr, I believe we should not recommend users to do such conversions needlessly (given we have decided to move to merged-/usr previously). It feels quite unprofessional for the dpkg maintainer to cause this avoidable breakage of user systems due to his disagreement with the project's decision. Ansgar
