Hi,
I fear we are not done with empty directory loss yet. This is a
technical update for future reference.
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:59:58AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > In effect, this bug report is an instance of a bug class.
On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 11:18, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > In effect, this bug report is an instance of a bug class. I am in the
> > process of quantifying its effects, but I do not have useful numbers at
> > this time. As an i
Hi,
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> In effect, this bug report is an instance of a bug class. I am in the
> process of quantifying its effects, but I do not have useful numbers at
> this time. As an initial gauge, I think it is about 2000 binary packages
> that shi
On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 14:09, Helmut Grohne wrote:
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> Hi Luca,
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:23:07AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > - unmerged-usr paths are no longer supported
> > >
> > > Then you argue that this bug would affect only unmerged systems, while
> > > it actually is in reverse
Hi Luca,
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:23:07AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > - unmerged-usr paths are no longer supported
> >
> > Then you argue that this bug would affect only unmerged systems, while
> > it actually is in reverse. Unmerged systems are unaffected by this bug
> > class. The deleti
On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 10:53, Helmut Grohne wrote:
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> Context for d-devel:
>
> Andreas Beckmann noticed that systemd ships an empty directory
> /usr/lib/modules-load.d. When removing a package that ships a file in
> /lib/modules-load.d (such as multipath-tools), dpkg may in some
> circumstanced d
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:53:01AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Are there other kinds of resources in dpkg that can be shared like
> directories? Thinking... Yes, regular files. How can files be shared?
> Via Multi-Arch: same. Can that happen for real? Yes. I've attached an
> artificial reproduce
Context for d-devel:
Andreas Beckmann noticed that systemd ships an empty directory
/usr/lib/modules-load.d. When removing a package that ships a file in
/lib/modules-load.d (such as multipath-tools), dpkg may in some
circumstanced delete the empty directory owned by systemd.
On Mon, May 29, 2023
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