On Oct 23, Mark Brown <broo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Control: severity -1 grave > Please don't play severity games, it's not at all helpful. "Makes the package in question unusable by most or all users" is correct: yp-tools will be broken on new default installs of unstable.
> Which was uploaded yesterday without warning which isn't exactly > helpful, there's not even been a proposal from anyone working on this > for how to fix it. I would expect that if something like this were > going to be imposed it'd be imposed towards the start of the release > cycle rather than at the very end. We have been discussing switching to merged /usr for over two years and there are just five broken packages left, all of them rarely used. This bug has been open since january and you never asked for help (actually you hinted that yp-tools was useless anyway as is). We (people interested in merged /usr) are not going to waste another release cycle. Your package installs some commands with the same name of commands provided by a different package, which makes it depend on the order of the user $PATH, and this would be broken anyway. If the package wants to take over the *domainname programs (but then what about hostname --fqdn?) then it should use diversions. -- ciao, Marco
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