On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 09:59:24AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
If we just force-merge every system on upgrade, none of those inconsistencies matter, and I do believe we could successfully complete that process (with some bumps, of course).
I think that's likely to be the most painful upgrade since a.out. We'd need one heck of a lot of testing that needs to have already started unless we want to push back buster.