Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited) (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)
On Sun, 21 May 2023 at 15:51, Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2023-05-21 at 16:25 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > On a process level, I think I miss attempts to resolve this with the
> > dpkg maintainer in a constructive way.
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> The patch was already suggested to the dpkg maintainer and rejected.
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> > Does anyone mind just closing the bug?
>
> Yes, I do.
>
> Please pass a resolution that you don't want to override the dpkg
> maintainer and that telling derivative users to configure their system
> in a way that will cause breakage is okay to do for packages in Debian.
I do as well. Recently a very strong consensus emerged that even
accidentally causing damage and/or incompatibility to
downstreams/external use cases is strongly frowned upon, to say the
least. Talking the talk is easy, now we have to walk the walk. Both
the warning and the 'unmess' tool cause significant damage and break
cross-compatibility, so they both need to be removed.
A "mind the moratorium" message would be of course very sensible to have.
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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