Hello,
On Wed 10 May 2023 at 11:47PM +02, Ansgar wrote:
> Dear ctte, please consider overruling the dpkg maintainer to include
> the patch from #994388[1].
Currently dpkg contains code to emit the merged-/usr warning, that's
dead code on Debian, but which becomes active when packages from the
De
Hi!
On Mon, 2023-05-08 at 18:44:57 +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
> There are a few very unlikely corner cases where I'm unsure what would be
> expected of dpkg:
So in general diversions are off-band redirections, that can live
independently to the package lifetime. But they are taken into account
w
Ansgar writes:
> On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 13:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Caring about them isn't the same thing as doing everything they want.
>> We can both try to make things as smooth for them as possible and still
>> make design decisions about Debian that they may disagree with or that
>>
Hi Russ,
On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 13:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ansgar writes:
> > As far as I understand, we do explicitly *not* care about our
> > derivatives with regard to merged-/usr as some packages in Debian
> > recommend users to move *away* from merged-/usr to split-/usr on
> > derivat
Ansgar writes:
> So why do we allow changes that require listing all reverse dependencies
> in Breaks then? This is known to be wrong for all non- listed packages,
> e.g., all local/vendor/derivative-specific packages.
Because it's a balance; we don't want to stop making changes, and never
makin
On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 08:35 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sun 07 May 2023 at 11:14AM +02, Ansgar wrote:
> > Debian's dependency system requires to explicitly declare
> > Depends/Conflicts/Replaces/Breaks, but for obvious reasons we
> > cannot do
> > that for packages outside Debian's ecosystem.
>
Hello,
On Sun 07 May 2023 at 11:14AM +02, Ansgar wrote:
> Debian's dependency system requires to explicitly declare
> Depends/Conflicts/Replaces/Breaks, but for obvious reasons we cannot do
> that for packages outside Debian's ecosystem.
>
> The same is true for diversions/alternatives/* or anyth
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