Hi Helmut, On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:58:42PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I think I mentioned this on IRC already and you intended to revert, but > nothing happened, so lets turn this into a bug for tracking purposes at > least.
Indeed, I forgot to follow up afterwards. Thanks for keeping track! > util-linux-extra gained the utils ctrlaltdel, [..] In > util-linux-extra, these now reside below /usr/sbin [..] > I think we have three ways to address this: > 1. Revert the move and retry after trixie. I think you favoured this? > 2. Upgrade Breaks to Conflicts and issue a temporary protective > diversion from u-l-e.preinst to u-l-e.postinst. In theory, apt can > first unpack u-l, then unpack u-l-e and then configure both, so > there is a safe solution. However, there is a risk that apt could > decide to temporarily remove u-l and that would be really bad. > 3. Keep Breaks and issue temporary diversions to be removed in forky's > u-l-e.postinst. > > Please let me know your choice and I can do a patch. I think half of 2) exists now, but Conflicts: util-linux will probably end badly as you note. I'd welcome a patch implementing 3). Initially I favored 1), but then u-l will never make progress on moving the non-essential files. Thanks! Chris
