Control: severity -1 serious On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 at 15:31:12 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > I heard you think it's important for a package to build reproducibly > in an unclean local environment. Your package fails that.
A similar issue with the same solution will be a practical problem as soon as Debian starts using merged-/usr on official buildds, and the Debian technical committee resolution https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994388#110 recommends treating this class of bug as release-critical for Debian 12, so I'm raising the severity of this bug. The problem scenario for merged-/usr is: - build the package on a system where both /bin/rm and /usr/bin/rm exist - install and run the package on a system where only /bin/rm exists - result: the feature that runs rm will not work Andreas provided a patch in 2018 that would resolve this, but was rejected by the maintainer. I provided a different patch in 2021 which attempted to address the maintainer's objections by taking a different approach (replacing AC_PATH_PROG with AC_CHECK_PROG, based on the maintainer considering it to be a bug that absolute paths were hard-coded, since the purpose of AC_PATH_PROG is that it gives you an absolute path). I built the resulting packages and put them through piuparts, but have not otherwise tested them (I don't use Emacs or vm, and wouldn't know where to start). Please apply one of these patches or solve this some other way before the Debian 12 freeze. Thanks, smcv
