On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 09:42:27AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > [..] he came up with a crazy solution where mksh's data.tar contains > ./bin/mksh but not ./bin on the grounds that ./bin is provided by an > essential package in all Debian releases.
> I think this approach practically solves a significant chunk of the > problems listed by DEP17, but it still confuses QA tools and e.g. > dpkg -S (maybe more). [..] A fully working, unconfused, dpkg is part of what we want. In my understanding, we are trying to ship a distribution, IOW a set of packages that work *together*. If a confused dpkg was okay, then a lot of the work could have been skipped. Chris
