Hi Luca, On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:43:23PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Well, of course it's incomplete - if it is as it appears to be and the > maintainer refuses to engage in any way, how can any reasonable > progress be made? Especially in the fact of constantly shifting goal > posts. First a working patch was needed to make progress. Now it's a > patch that is working, perfect, and satisfies arbitrary and unspecified > 'purity' requirements that are left mostly unstated and need to be > specified by third parties, before the patch can be even looked at. I > wonder what will be next...
Your way of engaging is anything but constructive. Please stop. I am unsurprised that communication between you and Guillem does not work that way. Please reflect on your attitude and behaviour. It is not in line with our code of conduct. > You say "how badly this transition is planned and carried out", and yet > there is tangible proof that it is in fact working fine for all intents > and purposes, without any major issues, for years and years. Again: > default for new installations in the past two stable releases, default > and forcibly transitioned for the past two Ubuntu releases (well, one > past and one coming next month), plus every other major distro doing > the same thing, in more or less the same way. The only observed issues > are minor or solved long ago, or theoretical. In fact, the only > widespread system breakages that are currently known to have happened > were caused by the misleading dpkg postinst that was added some days > ago. And all of this despite obstructionism from the maintainer of the > involved package. To me this looks like a remarkably successful > endeavour, all things considered. The /usr merge has a history of breakage affecting many users. It was even reverted due to breaking the archive. It has a history of its proponents not fixing the resulting bugs, but deferring them to others and/or denying/downgrading them. I've definitely spent more than a week on fixing /usr-merge breakage excluding the time discussing it. It is not working fine at all. Possibly, it is fixable on a technical level, but it is totally broken socially. Please stop this unconstructive behaviour. While this may sound single-sided, Guillem's behaviour wrt /usr-merge cannot be described as constructive either. Rest assured, that side of the picture is not being ignored. That should also be evident from dpkg.git at this time. Helmut