On 2022-09-26 14:49:15 -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Sean" == Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > > Sean> - you might be lacking the full context of TC-involving > Sean> discussions over the past few months, but so far as I can see, > Sean> you are asking for us to undo a decision that we only just > Sean> made, which doesn't make sense. > > Sean, as someone who has tried to follow this for a while, I'm confused > by a third thing. > Doesn't the TC recommendation given additional weight by the RT that we > not migrate file paths until the dpkg bug has been fixed make it > impossible for the pre-conditions for disappearing files to happen?
Indeed, there is a moratorium in place for this case. > I'd like to make sure that the bug submitter has not identified > something new here. I've not seen any new issues appearing since the last round I file bugs. Cheers > > >Also, to the bug submitter: > >needs to be fixed urgently. Several other equally dire scenarios > >are listed in https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr under the > >“merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs” subheading, albeit only tersely.) > > I think that if you are going to ask for drastic action like you are > doing, a turse mention on a wiki page is not sufficient documentation. > Simon's mail got significant attention because he actually worked > through and documented the situation. > I and I believe several people who have looked at this situation believe > that the RT guidance will prevent the issue Simon raised from happening. > > I suspect that if someone were to clearly document a different situation > that had not previously been considered, people would look at it. > I'd hope the TC would be open to considering newly documented technical > problems as an example. > But because the decision has been made, the bar for blocking things is a > lot higher at this point than turse descriptions on a wiki page. > -- Sebastian Ramacher
