On Fri, 2021-11-12 at 04:57 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sun, 2021-08-22 at 11:21:38 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 22:57 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 18:47:50 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > The bug is real, nobody doubts that - it has been filed on dpkg 20 > > > > years ago. > > > > > > You keep repeating this, but I have no idea what bug you refer to. > > > > > > There's #148258 (from 2002), which is conffile related, and not > > > actionable and should probably just be closed. > > > > > > There's #182747 (from 2003), which while apparently similar is > > > something else completely. This is about the (IMO) misfeature of > > > supporting a local admin to redirect (not alias) a directory using a > > > local symlink (mainly for space management reasons). For an > > > explanation > > > see <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779060#10>. > > > > > > There's #406715 (from 2007) which is related to the above misfeature. > > > > I am referring to #134758 since it's linked as the root cause from > > usrmerge's #848622. > > Well, that's a bogus block then, because that's obviously not the root > cause. I see I was CCed when that block was set, I guess I missed it. > :/ Fixed it now… > > > "dpkg-query: Make -S handle unowned symlinks resolving to owned > > pathnames" filed in February 2002 - 19 years and a half ago. I refer to > > that because it's linked as the root cause in the BTS of the relevant > > issue with usrmerge we are discussing. > > Even if the wishlist from that report got implemented, it would still > not fully solve all the problems, where among them «dpkg-query -S» > is probably the lesser one, which would not work in the other direction > anyway (querying a path under /usr/ known to dpkg as being under /). > > And then I'm not convinced this should even be implemented at all, > as it would introduce behavior differences between literal pathnames > and patterns, and making them slower (for the first case) or potentially > extremely slower (for the second case), in addition to making the queries > dependent on the on-disk layout (so unreliable from the packaging PoV, > as it would invent on the spot, pathnames not truly coming from any > package nor otherwise known to dpkg). > > This for a misfeature in dpkg (supporting redirecting symlinks) that > allowed the current mess anyway. So I'm inclined to wontfix and close > that one. > > > Not looking forward to further interactions… > Guillem Thanks for following up! There are currently 469 open bugs against src:dpkg, it's of course entirely up to you which ones you choose to fix and which one you close+wontfix. As far as workarounds go, this one is really really trivial to deal with, so I personally wouldn't mind at all. Thank you for your work! -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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