Bug#1020922: usrmerge: please split convert-* scripts into separate package from the postinst that actually performs the conversion

2022-09-28 Thread Luca Boccassi
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 13:41 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Source: usrmerge
> Version: 31
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: z...@owlfolio.org
> 
> It would be significantly easier to experiment with convert-usrmerge
> under exotic conditions if the scripts were installable without also
> pulling the postinst that performs the conversion.

On all systems, usrmerge is either already installed or can be
installed as a no-op because usr-is-merged is already present. What use
case would that solve that is thus not already covered?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi


signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part


Bug#1020922: usrmerge: please split convert-* scripts into separate package from the postinst that actually performs the conversion

2022-09-28 Thread Zack Weinberg
Source: usrmerge
Version: 31
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: z...@owlfolio.org

It would be significantly easier to experiment with convert-usrmerge
under exotic conditions if the scripts were installable without also
pulling the postinst that performs the conversion.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled