Bug#996833: Please include information whether system is usrmerged or not
control: tags -1 +moreinfo
> given the decisions by the CTTE to go with a merged-/usr file system
> layout, I think it would be useful (at least during the transition
> phase), if reportbug included the information whether a system is
> already using such a file system layout or not.
>
> reportbug already includes:
>
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> One can sort of deduce this information from the above line (on a
> merged-/usr system /bin/sh typically points to /usr/bin/dash), and most
> shells are typically installed in /bin, so I could understand if you
> reject this bug report.
we'd be happy to add this, but (as for other "recent" additions to the
system info section, such as what init system is in use) the burden of
coming up with a good/valid heuristics is on the requestor (simply
because we may not be in a good position to know all the intricacies).
While a MR implementing this is of course welcome, you can also simply
give us a good way to determine if it's usrmerged or not and we can
add that information; an reference implementation (still using the
init system example from above) is
https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/-/blob/master/reportbug/utils.py#L1220-1241
Since we also try to keep that section of the bug report contained in
size, do we need to add a new line for all bug reports? do we want to
start first with only adding a line if a system is usr-merged (which
is the least common case)? can we merge this information with another
sys-info line already present in every bug report?
thanks!
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