Le lundi, 4 mars 2019, 22.28:38 h CET Margarita Manterola a écrit :
> Hi,
>
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> >
> > The winners are:
> > Option M `middle`
> > Option H `hard`
> >
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> >
> > Dear Marga, as Chair, could you please make use of your casting vote to
> > break this tie?
>
> I'm using my casting vote to vote in favor of M `middle` (i.e. consider
> that the desirable situation at the time of bullseye is that both directory
> schemes are allowed, all packages can be built on either).
>
> My rationale for taking this decision is as follows:
>
> Right now we are not ready to migrate to building on merged-usr systems in
> Debian, there are still 29 known packages that are broken and need to be
> fixed. My expectation is that those packages will be fixed in the not so
> distant future (i.e. before bullseye) and that after that, the buildd
> profile in debootstrap will default to having a merged /usr, so that new
> buildd chroots will use that setup.
>
> However, we have no control over how fast individual developers and
> derivative distributions will migrate to the new format. It's possible that
> more time will be required until everyone is ready to migrate.
>
> Additionally, as of our current understanding of the issue, there are no
> known problems for building on a non-merged system. Supporting this
> setup does not imply additional work from the point of view of our
> maintainers (for now).
>
> In the future, it would be a bug if a problem is discovered with building a
> package on a non-merged /usr system. I understand that this would mean
> additional work to the maintainers of such a package, but at least as of
> today this is a non-issue. Eventually, when fixing such bugs becomes a
> significant burden for our maintainers, it can be decided that the setup is
> no-longer supported, but my personal recommendation would be to wait at
> least until bullseye+1. That's why I'm voting "Middle" for bullseye.
I have announced this decision on debian-devel-announce:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00001.html
I am therefore hereby closing this bug.
Thank you to all involved parties!
Cheers,
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