Samuel Thibault:
Hello,
Niels Thykier, le mar. 06 août 2024 09:43:51 +0200, a ecrit:
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? Well, no. TBH I even believe that deboostrap will refuse such an
arrangement, because AFAIK, the principle is that Debian wants to avoid
unexpected surprises when installing dependencies at bootstrap, and thus
only look for explicited alternatives, and not for provides. A lot of
packages have thus been doing that for a long time.
Samuel
I am willing to *temporarily* aid you with a work around until you can
find a more permanent solution. I am not seeing signs of nor feel that
you are actively looking an implementing a permanent solution and
instead seem surprised when I ask for you show that there is work being
down on the permanent solution. Nor did you provide me with an
indication for how long you wanted this work around to last (which again
suggests to me that you /might/ be hoping it is more permanent than I
want it to be)
That makes me uncomfortable because at the end of the day, I see this is
a temporary change that will be reverted before the next stable release
and I do not want at that time to restart the discussion or have to deal
with an extension of the temporary work around.
So, coming back to your ask. I am okay with doing it if and only if:
* It is clearly time limited while a permanent solution is found.
However, I am not volunteering to any of:
* Working on the permanent solution, providing patches for it or even
participating in its discussion.
* Letting this temporarily solution "suddenly" becoming a permanent
by virtue of "... but reverting it brings stuffs".
That is where I am, could you please state what you are expecting
happens from here and how you see hurd getting into a stable situation?
Best regards,
Niels
