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Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg



Hello,

On Sun 07 May 2023 at 12:03PM +01, Luca Boccassi wrote:

> Sure, this is in the context of the ongoing discussion in the TC about
> revising their side of the advice.

I think it's highly unlikely that we revise it rather than just reissue
it, at the present time, because too many details are unsettled.

> Also, we shouldn't lose sight of the reason why this was issued in the
> first place: it is designed to stop a problem from happening, and that
> problem can only happen when both conditions are true. I can't read
> minds obviously, but I imagine that's the reason the RT advice was
> worded as it was.

It's designed to stop as-yet-unknown problems happening, too.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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