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Re: tech-ctte: more on merged-/usr



On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 13:03 -0700, Tianon Gravi wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 06:21, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
> > That's because we will do all builds on unmerged-usr, until we are
> > sure
> > everything is switched over (and the autopkgtest/piuparts can also
> > be
> > turned over) in Bookworm+1, then there's nowhere left that runs
> > them in
> > unmerged-usr systems, and thus we can happily forget about it and
> > spend
> > the time on other issues.
> > 
> > Wouldn't this work? Am I missing something?
> 
> Hopefully I'm not too OT (please feel free to tell me if so! [1]
> would
> be an appropriate place to continue with more discussion on the
> topic)
> but another angle to this is the container images.
> 
> [1]:
> https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/issues/131#issuecomment-900591334
> 
> They're currently *not* merged-/usr specifically because their usage
> is in a gray area between user and build and we didn't want to break
> the latter -- I'm guessing this means that for Bookworm, they should
> technically stay in the "unsupported" configuration for the lifetime
> of the release? /o\
> 
> (They're not used for any "official" package builds, but definitely
> used for unofficial builds where the same concerns apply such as
> Salsa
> CI, although hopefully to a lesser extent.)

My understanding is, only *till* the release, then they should be
switched. But Simon please correct me if I'm wrong.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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