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

2023-05-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Luca, On Sat, May 06, 2023 at 09:47:15PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Sure, there are some things that need special handling, as you have > pointed out. What I meant is that I don't think we need special > handling for _all_ affected packages. AFAIK nothing is using > diversions for unit

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

2023-05-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 06 May 2023 at 09:47PM +01, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 19:51, Helmut Grohne wrote: >> >> > - the moratorium on moving files from bin/ sbin/ lib/ _and_ to other >> > packages at the same time is maintained from bookworm till trixie, and >> > will lifted after

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

2023-05-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 19:51, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > I fear you are still missing too many relevant details. What sounds like > a simple plan is severely broken if carried out in this simple form. It > disappoints me that you continue to present it as this simple given the > earlier

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

2023-05-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 19:51, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > On Sat, May 06, 2023 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > To have a working system you need several more steps that are > > performed by the instantiator/image builder, such as providing working > > and populated

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

2023-05-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Luca, On Sat, May 06, 2023 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > To have a working system you need several more steps that are > performed by the instantiator/image builder, such as providing working > and populated proc/sys/dev, writable tmp/var, possibly etc. And it > needs to be

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

2023-05-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 16:11, Simon Richter wrote: > > Hi, > > On 06.05.23 21:28, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > [shipping usrmerge symlinks in packages] > > > In the far future I'd like for these details to be owned by image > > builders/launchers/setup processes rather than a package, but this can > >

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

2023-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 06.05.23 21:28, Luca Boccassi wrote: [shipping usrmerge symlinks in packages] In the far future I'd like for these details to be owned by image builders/launchers/setup processes rather than a package, but this can be discussed separately and independently, no need to be tied to this

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

2023-05-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 06:21, Simon Richter wrote: > > Hi, > > On 06.05.23 07:11, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > - every package is forcefully canonicalized as soon as trixie is open > > for business > > You will also need to ship at least > > - /lib -> usr/lib (on 32 bit) > - /lib64 -> usr/lib64