Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-05-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Tue, 02 May 2023, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I think there is a caveat (whose severity I am unsure about): In order > to rely on this (and on DEP 17), we will likely have versioned > Pre-Depends on dpkg. Can we reasonably rule out the case where and old > dpkg is running, unpacking a fixed d

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-05-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Raphaƫl, On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 10:31:14AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I don't know APT well enough to answer that question but from my point of > view it's perfectly acceptable to document in the release notes that you > need to upgrade dpkg first. Yes, this issue seems vaguely solvable

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-05-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 10:31:14AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 02 May 2023, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > I think there is a caveat (whose severity I am unsure about): In order > > to rely on this (and on DEP 17), we will likely have versioned > > Pre-Depends on dpkg. Can we reasonably rule

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-05-03 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 03.05.23 19:19, Helmut Grohne wrote: What still applies here is that we can have usr-is-merged divert /usr/bin/dpkg-divert and have it automatically duplicate any possibly aliased diversion and then the diverter may Pre-Depends: usr-is-merged (>=...) to have its diversions duplicated. Of

Re: Status of dpkg-shlibdeps tracking ARM object linkage ABI mismatches

2023-05-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Guillem! On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:27:47PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >Hi Steve! > >I was recently working on the Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump module code >related to ELF and ABI tracking, and when seeing the ARM handling >missing there, recalled the issues we saw some time ago with ARM >when I tri

Re: Status of dpkg-shlibdeps tracking ARM object linkage ABI mismatches

2023-05-03 Thread Wookey
On 2023-05-03 21:50 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > If we're still seeing > issues in packages today, then maybe we might find some help from > Wookey or Emmanuel (who should both be reading this list!). I am, and have noticed this issue and put it on our list of things to look at. I was going to w