Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg
- To: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
- Cc: team@release.debian.org, debian-ctte@debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg
- From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2023 11:06:27 -0700
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- In-reply-to: <CAMw=ZnRbq=He1u16hPEqK8C4H9ECYN9hBHqS06s2jwOSu4gxFA@mail.gmail.com> (Luca Boccassi's message of "Sun, 7 May 2023 12:03:47 +0100")
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Hello,
On Sun 07 May 2023 at 12:03PM +01, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Sure, this is in the context of the ongoing discussion in the TC about
> revising their side of the advice.
I think it's highly unlikely that we revise it rather than just reissue
it, at the present time, because too many details are unsettled.
> Also, we shouldn't lose sight of the reason why this was issued in the
> first place: it is designed to stop a problem from happening, and that
> problem can only happen when both conditions are true. I can't read
> minds obviously, but I imagine that's the reason the RT advice was
> worded as it was.
It's designed to stop as-yet-unknown problems happening, too.
--
Sean Whitton
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