David Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu 02 Jan 2020 at 19:49:45 (+0100), Sven Hartge wrote:
>> But, to summarize: I'd have liked for this change to be done in a >> different way with *all* systems-maintainers in board. > Reading #914897, that didn't seem likely as views were somewhat > entrenched. Well, this *is* Debian, where often problems are discussed without decision until either the problems are no longer a problem or one of the discussion parties goes away. But, to be fair, Debian is in a unique position in regard of the usr-merge: Because it supports seamless and even partial upgrades from one release to the other, it has to accommodate all sorts of setups for a very very long time or provide a flawless migration path, which is not easy, to say the least. Other distributions of the more enterprisey style, like RHEL/Centos or SLES can just declare something like "non-usr-merged systems cannot be upgraded from X to Y and need to be reinstalled" and be done like it. Debian prided itself of never having needed that, be it the labourous libc5 to glibc2 migration, the a.out to ELF switch or several g++ ABI breakages. So I am giving Debian some slack here. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
