On 2019-05-28 at 18:26:31, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > safe-rm also breaks a stretch --merged-usr chroot, found while testing > with piuparts stretch->buster upgrades with --merged-usr enabled. > And it seems to be the only package causing outright havoc in such a > scenario.
So if I understand correctly, this is only a problem when testing with this tool, right? Because: (1) users can't upgrade their system to a merged-usr one on stretch and (2) the default for new stretch installs was not usr-merged. > While a proper solution is too involved for stable, it should probably > be OK for the preinst to check for merged /usr systems and error out if > installation is attempted in such a case - instead of leaving a broken > system. I'd be happy to see it "fixed" that way in stretch. I don't have a lot of free time at the moment to make the change myself but I would support such a NMU. Francois -- https://fmarier.org/
