Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote: > On Nov 10, Sam Hartman <hartm...@suchdamage.org> wrote: > > I'm sorry, but I think the only way in which that horse is dead is that > > no one has proposed patches to dpkg. > Indeed, because the sides of this argument are like three people (one of > them being the dpkg maintainer) versus everybody else.
It's not a subject of debate. The dpkg maintainer says that dpkg does not support what usrmerge does, and that it can lead to package corruption. In the previous debian-devel thread on this, it was proven empirically that he is correct. > Since some significant work on dpkg is reasonably not forthcoming Yeah, because _you,_ Marco, prefer to spend your time trying to gaslight the project into thinking there isn't a critical-severity bug in usrmerge. This could have all been over by now if you had rolled up your sleeves and written the necessary patches for dpkg when Guillem originally notified you of the problem (in 2016; #848622; the bug log does not reflect the actual severity, but again that appears to be all on you). zw