On Fri, 2022-03-25 at 14:30 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:46:01AM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Let me reverse the question: this stuff has been known and going on for > > what, 3 years? Why do _you_ think it is that nobody has stepped up to > > write a patch? In the same time lapse everybody involved has written > > mountains of code elsewhere. Why do you think this is different? > > I think there are basically three kinds of people in this debate. I'm > overgeneralizing a little, but I hope you get the message anyway. > > I call the first group "proponents". Those want the /usr-merge to > happen. Their use cases are not impacted by dpkg -S being broken or dpkg > deleting files during moves, so they don't care much about the remaining > bugs. Why would they write the code? It all just works for them. Most > likely, Luca is part of this group.
I am part of that group, and that is definitely _not_ why I wouldn't touch dpkg with a barge pole as things stand (and have stood for years). You are making a gigantic leap with that assumption, not sure what you base it on. As a downstream and upstream maintainer in several large projects I fix things that don't impact me all the time, all over the place. But anyway, it turns out it's all moot because - drum roll - there is a patch: https://0x0.st/oNFG.diff This was shared just now on #debian-devel IRC by user 'uau', linked here with explicit permission. So it looks like you, Russ and others who chimed in this thread should now be in a position to test your theory that a missing patch was the only issue. Care to take it forward? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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