>>>>> "Marco" == Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> writes:
Marco> On Nov 10, Sam Hartman <hartmans@suchdamage.org> wrote:
>> I'm sorry, but I think the only way in which that horse is dead
>> is that no one has proposed patches to dpkg.
Marco> Indeed, because the sides of this argument are like three
Marco> people (one of them being the dpkg maintainer) versus
Marco> everybody else. Since some significant work on dpkg is
Marco> reasonably not forthcoming then this is clearly not a viable
Marco> transition method.
Um, no one still involved in this thread is talking about transition
methods other than what the TC proposed.
We're all talking about transition methods where /bin becomes a symlink
to /usr/bin.
The question is whether we ever get to a place where people can update
files in a package currently installed to /bin/foo and instead install
them to /usr/bin/foo.
We have a consensus that dpkg bugs make that a bad idea.
That consensus is validated by the TC.
It's not clear to me that bug is likely to get fixed in the bookworm +1
time.
I don't think that means we halt the transition: the TC has made a
decision that we're going forward.
I do think it means probably even after the release of bookworm we
cannot rearrange where packages claim files get installed.
That's the horse I think is not dead.
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