Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-05 Thread Marc Haber
We should not make life harder for those people. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-05 Thread Marc Haber
ompromised, precisely? > Unstable would become less useful at weeding out bugs in packages before > they reach testing, Can you elaborate on that? Why does providing more and better information make it harder to identify bugs? Greetings Marc -- ---

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-04 Thread Marc Haber
at run testing but will automatically move to stable once testing is released as stable. I would also love to be able to get rid of my heuristics to distinguish testing from unstable. My heuristics are not nearly as ugly as yours, but I would not cry while removing them. Greetings Marc -- -

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 11:51:45PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Conversely, I am unsure how to distinguish testing and unstable myself. > Say I operate an unstable system and eventually decide that my ride is > too bumpy and I prefer running testing, I may edit my sources.list and > after a month

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 12:06:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The second thing that I'm not fond of is giving testing the version number > 13 when we plan on using 13 as the version number for the trixie release. > I fear that if we do that, someone (probably a third-party package > provider)

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 06:58:09PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > The TL;DR: ensure that the version of the 'os-release' package with > the content for unstable stays in unstable and never migrates, and the > version of the 'os-release' package with the content for testing goes > to testing either

Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-21 Thread Marc Haber
even many of our own users do what their Desktop Environment does, and our downstreams like *b*nt* recommend other ways to upgrade as well. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadres

Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-03-29 Thread Marc Haber
by doing software releases. > There is a social aspect here that is presently failing hard. Yes :-( Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germ

Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-02 Thread Marc Haber
about the distant future, and not the current snapshot of things. And, it has been satisfactorily answered by now. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany

Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 11:36:45PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le samedi, 1 décembre 2018, 19.29:59 h CET Marc Haber a écrit : > > Will binaries move from /usr/bin to /bin? Or will binaries move from > > /bin to /usr/bin? > > A merged-/usr has a /bin → /usr/bin symli

Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-01 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: Package-created usernames

2007-12-05 Thread Marc Haber
which minimizes impact, such as the Debian- prefix that Debian's default MTA has been using for years. I am sure that we'd know by now if this had made trouble anywhere. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust