Hi Guillem,
>These directories are included because the package should be
>self-contained and ship all required parent directories, otherwise
>dpkg would fail to unpack as you mentioned (even though there's
right.
>generally the Essential set in play), and so that the directory
>"ref-counting" (
Hi!
On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 23:27:07 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Dixi quod…
> >Or, better yet, absence of that entry in the ustar (possibly
> >combined with a Pre-Depends). It’s ridiculous that every pak‐
> >kage ships all those directory entries anyway. That avoids
These directories are includ
Dixi quod…
>Or, better yet, absence of that entry in the ustar (possibly
>combined with a Pre-Depends). It’s ridiculous that every pak‐
>kage ships all those directory entries anyway. That avoids
Hmh, lintian warns, and dpkg needs the directories present if
not in the .deb, but most likely we c̲a
Dixi quod…
>If your only concern is the “undeclared symlink conflict”,
>I’d be willing to entertain considering adding a Pre-Depends
>and/or changing the top-level “bin” in the data.tar.xz member
Or, better yet, absence of that entry in the ustar (possibly
combined with a Pre-Depends). It’s ridic
Helmut Grohne dixit:
>There is a significant difference here. mksh has an undeclared directory
>vs symlink conflict with base-files about /bin. This is known to cause
>problems.
But there’s handling in installers to deal with that,
and by keeping the files in mksh in the same location,
there won’
Hi Thorsten,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 11:29:34PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> close 1073608
> close 1073622
> thanks
>
> Helmut Grohne dixit:
>
> >This package is part of the /usr-move (DEP17) transition, because it
> >contains files in aliased locations and should have those files moved to
>
close 1073608
close 1073622
thanks
Helmut Grohne dixit:
>This package is part of the /usr-move (DEP17) transition, because it
>contains files in aliased locations and should have those files moved to
No. The files in both packages are in their canonical location.
And if you use a usrmerged syste
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