On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 11:16:22AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > I find it quite disappointing to read https://bugs.debian.org/848622 . I > don't know if it is arrogance or ignorance, but this bug is undoubtedly > caused by usrmerge: > > frtest2:~# ls -l /usr/bin/bash > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1283864 Aug 25 16:03 /usr/bin/bash > frtest2:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/bash > dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/bash `dpkg -S` not knowing about files installed by packages is nothing new. This was always how it worked and it was never reliable to answer "which package installed this file/which package is responsible for this file", usrmerge just added one more case where it fails. #134758, linked in the bug you linked, indeed covers a part of this general problem. > Pointing at other maintainers/packages to fix your bugs is anti-social. "your bugs" > Don't force Debian decide whether the usrmerge bugs should be accepted > in the next release. Just fix them. The alternative is ugly. And I'm > not thinking about the actual bugs, but about the discussion... "usrmerge bugs" -- WBR, wRAR
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