Control: user helm...@debian.org Control: usertags -1 = dep17p9 Hi Dmitry and Chris,
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 03:53:44PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2023 12:12:08 PM AEDT Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Severity: important > > ... > > your package smartmontools ships an empty directory > > /lib/systemd/system: First of all, I confirm that there is a problem. Thanks for filing it. What that problem is precisely, is less obvious. A naive lookup using DEP17 would result in P6 (empty directory loss), but since smartmontools also ships /usr/lib/systemd/system, it cannot actually be lost and hence dumat does not complain about it. It is not a P6 problem. However, base-files will eventually install /lib as a symbolic link in its data.tar. When that happens, smartmontools has an undeclared symlink vs directory conflict with base-files. In the worst scenario, this could be resolved by dpkg in favour of smartmontools breaking the entire system. I note that base-files does not yet have this symbolic link, so what is being reported here is a future problem aiming to make the transition less broken in future. > How installing empty directory could possibly warrant severity "important"?? Thanks for asking. I am inclined to agree that filing P9 problems at normal severity now and later bumping them to higher severity is more appropriate given that there is little urgency just yet. This filing has now become the first instance of a P9 problem being reported in Debian as far as I understand. Chris has been doing a lot of work on important aspects of this transition. Please expect us to not get every detail right on the first attempts. Still your feedback is valuable for improving future filings. Thanks for your understanding Helmut
