Re: Is an MBF and unblock for packages introducing new files in /bin or /sbin or /lib in Bookworm acceptable at this stage?
On Sun, 21 May 2023 at 20:29, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Re: Luca Boccassi
> > If we were to do a MBF against packages that in _Bookworm_ have
> > introduced new files in /bin, /sbin or /lib*, would you accept the
> > consequent mass unblock request?
>
> Fwiw, I would restrict that to packages that didn't have files in
> these directories before. Telling a maintainer that they should
> continue install foo.service to /lib/systemd, but the newly introduced
> bar.service needs to got to /usr/lib/systemd seems like a lot of extra
> work and asking for bugs to happen.
Yes, this (the number of files mentioned) already excludes things that
are installed by dh addons and so, such as unit files.
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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