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Bug#978636: marked as done (move to merged-usr-only?)

Your message dated Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:13:11 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?
has caused the Debian Bug report #978636,
regarding move to merged-usr-only?
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Hi,

as suggested in [1], I would like to see Debian to move to support
only the merged-usr filesystem layout.  This would simplfy things for
the future and also address the problem with installing files under
aliased trees that dpkg has to do for both variants to be supported.

merged-usr has been the default for new installations since the last
release and (as far as I am aware) no world-breaking bugs have
happened since; some environments such as buildd chroots still do not
use merged-usr.

I would like to ask the technical committee to decide whether we want
to move to merged-usr-only.  It seems to be a case of overlapping
jurisdiction (6.1.2 in the constitution).

I'm not asking the committee to decide on a concrete technical
implementation for this.  Obviously we would need to also implement a
migration path for legacy installations for a move to merged-usr-only
to be implemented.  This also isn't relevant for Debian 11 (bullseye),
but I would like to have enough time in the Debian 12 (bookworm)
cycle.

Ansgar

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/11/#00232
     continued in December: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/12/#00386

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Hello,

On Mon 25 Jan 2021 at 11:45AM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:

> I call for votes on the following ballot to resolve #978636.  The voting
> period starts immediately and lasts for up to one week, or until the
> outcome is no longer in doubt (§6.3.1).

The vote has concluded.

Marga, David, Niko, Gunnar, Simon, Elana and myself all voted: YFN.

Therefore:

    The Technical Committee resolves that Debian 'bookworm' should
    support only the merged-usr root filesystem layout, dropping support
    for the non-merged-usr layout.

    Until after the release of 'bullseye', any implementation of this
    resolution must be done in the 'experimental' distribution, or
    otherwise kept out of the critical paths for the release of
    'bullseye'.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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