Re: A summary of where I think we are on the technical side of the merged /usr discussion
On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 15:08, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
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> >>>>> "Luca" == Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> writes:
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> Luca> On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 12:07 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Luca> If src:usrmerge is made transitively-essential, from that
> Luca> point onward it wouldn't matter if a package is no longer
> Luca> compatible with the legacy split-usr setup, no?
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> No, there are upgrades to consider.
> We know at the end of the upgrade all the essential packages are going
> to be installed.
> But especially within the pseudo essential set we do not typically have
> ordering guarantees.
> So, we generally assume that we need to wait until the release after
> such a transition is introduced to depend on it.
Wouldn't a pre-depends solve the ordering problem in this case?
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