Re: usr-is-merged package in bullseye?
On Tue 13 Sep 2022 at 13:09:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 04:45:40PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > There's a package usr-is-merged that will stop usrmerge being installed
> > with init-system-helpers (and so avoids bringing in its dependencies)
> > but I don't see that available in bullseye.
> >
> > Most of my systems are already merged /usr and I'd prefer to avoid
> > bringing in unnecessary packages when I upgrade to bookworm (which will
> > be after bookworm becomes stable). Will the usr-is-merged package be
> > added to bullseye before then?
>
> Added to bullseye? That sounds unlikely. New packages are almost never
> *added* to a stable release.
>
> I can only guess that once we're in the bookworm freeze, some instructions
> will start to appear for how users are expected to manage the transition.
> Perhaps it will be possible to install the testing version of the
> usr-is-merged package on stable. From what I gleaned from packages.d.o,
> it's only got a copyright file and a changelog file. No dependencies or
> anything, so if any package from testing is safe to install on stable,
> it might be that one.
>
> As far as usrmerge dependencies go, I was curious, so I did this:
>
> unicorn:~$ apt-get -s install usrmerge
> NOTE: This is only a simulation!
> apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
> Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
> so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> The following additional packages will be installed:
> libfile-find-rule-perl libnumber-compare-perl libtext-glob-perl
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> libpng12-0 xv
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libfile-find-rule-perl libnumber-compare-perl libtext-glob-perl usrmerge
> 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Remv xv [3.10a-20]
> Remv libpng12-0 [1.2.50-2+deb8u3]
> Inst libnumber-compare-perl (0.03-1.1 Debian:11.5/stable [all])
> Inst libtext-glob-perl (0.11-1 Debian:11.5/stable [all])
> Inst libfile-find-rule-perl (0.34-1 Debian:11.5/stable [all])
> Inst usrmerge (25 Debian:11.5/stable [all])
> Conf libnumber-compare-perl (0.03-1.1 Debian:11.5/stable [all])
> Conf libtext-glob-perl (0.11-1 Debian:11.5/stable [all])
> Conf libfile-find-rule-perl (0.34-1 Debian:11.5/stable [all])
> Conf usrmerge (25 Debian:11.5/stable [all])
>
> Now I'm no longer just curious -- I'm *concerned*. Why does it want to
> remove my libpng12-0 package? What's the best way to keep/reinstall xv
> on my system after this upgrade?
I'm curious too: libpng12-0 is from jessie, and is presumably there
to support xv 3.10a-20 from slink. (BTW why didn't you upgrade xv to
potato or woody, both -25?) Is xv lurking in some backport, or do you
compile it yourself? I can't find it. (I think it was always non-free,
perhaps because of compression patents of that time.)
Does this bode well for xtoolwait (from squeeze), I ask myself.
No, no removals here; just the same four packages to install.
I assume I'm merged already:
$ ls -l /bin /lib /sbin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 16 20:25 /bin -> usr/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 16 20:25 /lib -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 16 20:25 /sbin -> usr/sbin
$
Cheers,
David.
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