On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 16:28 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 15:47:17 +0200, Ansgar wrote: > > On Sun, 2022-03-27 at 14:34 +0200, Ansgar wrote: > > > I think the warning emitted by dpkg's postinst script about > > > Debian's > > > default filesystem layout is not appropriate and at least > > > partially > > > misleading. Several other people agreed with this sentiment. > > > > To clarify due to misunderstanding that seem to have happened: > > > > - Merged-/usr is planned to become the only supported layout for > > Debian > > in the future, cf. [1]. > > Perhaps I indeed misunderstood something, but this seemed pretty > clear to me (from [T]:
I'm not sure what you mean by "this"? The decision to only support the merged-/usr filesystem layout in the future? > - Because Debian 11 installations with the non-merged-/usr layout > already exist, all packages in Debian 12 should be installable > onto a non-merged-/usr system along with their dependencies, and > work correctly on the resulting system. Packages in Debian 13 might no longer work correctly on legacy split- /usr installations. Telling Debian 12/bookworm users to convert systems to such a layout thus breaks their upgrade path to Debian 13 (including partial upgrades) and should not be done. [ Derivatives ] > I'm not sure how this is a concern for Debian, TBH. Any such problems will by default also happen on derivatives that don't identify and patch affected packages. So I think an opt-in for this warning is the better choice for derivatives that want to do so. Ansgar >
