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Bug#913229: release.debian.org: RC status of merged-/usr bugs?



Am 17.11.18 um 12:41 schrieb Adrian Bunk:

> This would be a huge regression, buildds aren't the only place where 
> packages get built.
> 
> It doesn't sounds right that we suddenly start declaring it "misbuilt" 
> when a user builds a package locally with dpkg-buildpackage as has been 
> working for the past 25 years.
> 
> I am not aware of any real benefits of merged /usr for users, so let's 
> go back from "How can we mitigate some regressions of merged /usr?" to 
> "Can we make merged /usr working in buster without causing any
>  regressions at all?".

Of course there are benefits for the users, otherwise we wouldn't be
doing it. That said, I don't think this bug report is the right place to
discuss this.

The way I see this is, that building locally is still supported.
Some few packages will be affected by this and be misbuilt a in
merged-usr environment.
That is not too different from packages being buggy because they have
been built locally and e.g. picked up a library dependency from say
experimental or some (unwanted) package features where turned on because
./configure auto-detected a locally installed libray.
We can binNMU those packages in both cases to have working packages again.

Michael

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