Bug#839046: debootstrap: enable --merged-usr by default
On 12/20/2016 01:35 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Control: found -1 1.0.87
>
> Hi there!
>
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:47:21 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
> wrote:
>> Package: debootstrap
>> Version: 1.0.83
>>
>> As mentioned earlier, I would like to see --merged-usr enabled by
>> default for Debian Stretch. The last discussion on -devel@[1] was quite
>> positive; I had some additional positive feedback on IRC.
>>
>> I'm not aware of any regressions so far, except for having forgotten to
>> add "jessie-kfreebsd" to the blacklist (a list of older releases that
>> don't support merged-/usr) and debootstrap 1.0.83 failing to bootstrap
>> squeeze[2]. Both are fixed in my changes targeted at 1.0.84[3].
>>
>> So I would like to switch the default in debootstrap sooner rather than
>> later to give time to find some more bugs. With this change, the
>> currently known bugs[4] should also be raised to "serious", but I don't
>> think any of them should be a blocker.
>>
>> Ansgar
>>
>> [1] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/09/msg00269.html>
>> [2] <https://bugs.debian.org/838388>
>> [3] <https://github.com/aburch/debootstrap>
>> [4] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=usrmerge;users=md@linux.it>
>
>
> This change was reverted in 1.0.87 as dpkg-shlibdeps didn't cope
> properly with a merged-usr system. Thus reopening this bug report for
> that version.
>
> The dpkg-shlibdeps bugs has been fixed [1] in the mean time. So it would
> be great if this bug report could be re-considered.
>
That'll be after stretch now.
Cheers,
Julien
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