Control: retitle -1 OBS does not correctly implement the bootstrap protocol Control: reassign -1 src:open-build-service Control: affects -1 + ed
Hi, On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 10:48:54AM +0200, Oliver Smith wrote: > in Debian sid, installing ed fails with: > > [49/600] installing ed-1.20.2-2 > update-alternatives: error: alternative path /bin/ed doesn't exist > > It looks like this is related to usr merge, the binary seems to be in > /usr/bin/ed now: https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/ed/filelist > > The error happens in an opensuse build server, trying to build a Debian > package that depends on ed. The bootstrap protocol requires that every transitively essential package has been configured at least once before installing other packages. ed is such an other package. Therefore, we may assume that usrmerge or usr-is-merged (which are a dependency of essential init-system-helpers) has been configured at least once. OBS has its own bootstrap strategy that violates this requirement. The bug is to be found there rather than in ed. Helmut
