Bug#1050001: Practical problems with proposed symlink farming: diversions

2023-09-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-09-01 Ansgar wrote: > Hi, > a practical thing with usrmerge and legacy layout[1] is the following: > assume you do not want programs to find a specific program via PATH > lookup or even a fully-qualified path. > Then a user can just divert that single program away (or just remove > it, de

Bug#1020792: tech-ctte: Halt merged-/usr transition until dpkg filesystem damage bugs are fixed

2022-09-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2022-09-27 Zack Weinberg wrote: [...] > What I am asking for is a schedule change: specifically, that the > merged /usr transition not be allowed to proceed past the status quo > as of two weeks ago (i.e. *before* init-system-helpers added a > dependency on usrmerge|usr-is-merged) until after t

Bug#975381: Subject: libinih: drop Debian's custom vendorisation

2020-12-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-11-21 Stephan Lachnit wrote: [...] > Because the library was designed for embedded use cases where every > little bit of performance matters, the runtime patch was refused > upstream. Dropping the runtime patch from Debian actually isn't > problem, no reverse dependency of libinih uses com

Bug#727708: Thoughts/Summary on the init-system

2014-01-19 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2014-01-19 Andreas Barth wrote: [...] > On the linux ports, all would work. On the kbsd ports I believe that both > upstart and openrc could be working, but none is yet. For hurd, at least > openrc could and probably also upstart. > > Porting systemd to kbsd or hurd is not realistic from what