Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

David Bremner writes ("Re: Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?"):
> There is a draft ballot being prepared for a vote. I'm not sure when
> that will be ready.  The minutes of the last TC meeting should have more
> precise information than my memory.

Thanks.

I just read the discussion in the irc log.

I theme I identified in it was the social cost of overriding the
debootstrap maintainer.

A contrasting issue that was not really discussed is the social cost
of allowing the debootstrap maintainers to impose this transition on
the rest of the project.

(This is difficult to disconnect from the unpleasant communication
style of one of the principal usrmerge advocates on debian-devel.)


Also, I think whether Debian installs should have merged /usr by
default is a matter of technical policy which the TC ought to feel
free to address directly.

This is especially the case since none of the other possible
candidates for how to set this distribution-wide policy are useable:
the Policy editors have decided that Policy should lag implementation
rather than lead it; debian-devel didn't work; and there is no other
forum or body with sufficient breadth.

Thanks,
Ian.

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