* Luca Boccassi [2023-06-10 19:54]:
I would caution to avoid interpreting clarifying questions being asked
as dissent. It's good to ask questions and clarify details about
corner cases, but I wouldn't automatically write them down as
disagreement. At least that's my reading of recent parts of th
On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 at 19:07, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Luca Boccassi writes:
> > On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 at 18:06, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> On the other, related topic, I've also been somewhat confused in this
> >> discussion why it seems like there's a long-term goal to not have any
> >> Debian pa
Luca Boccassi writes:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 at 18:06, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> On the other, related topic, I've also been somewhat confused in this
>> discussion why it seems like there's a long-term goal to not have any
>> Debian package ship the /bin and /lib symlinks. I would assume we
>> wou
On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 at 18:06, Russ Allbery wrote:
> On the other, related topic, I've also been somewhat confused in this
> discussion why it seems like there's a long-term goal to not have any
> Debian package ship the /bin and /lib symlinks. I would assume we would
> keep those symlinks forever
Helmut Grohne writes:
> Indeed. However, if you actually manage to trigger this, it can be very
> surprising. Your hard coded list would also contain /lib32, /libx32 and
> /libo32. Then you install some mipsen packages, remove them and wonder
> why /libo32 does not go away. piuparts is definitely
On Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 14:32 Jeroen Dekkers, wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jun 2023 22:14:16 +0200,
> Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 02:42:25PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> > > Later, whatever replaces /lib64 with a symlink needs to deal with
> this, but
> > > that's not significantly dif
On Fri, 09 Jun 2023 22:14:16 +0200,
Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 02:42:25PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> > Because you want to support non-usr-merged systems, e.g. for derivatives?
>
> dpkg is used in any different contexts. A very simple example of a
> non-merged system would b
Simon McVittie left as an exercise for the reader:
> Sorry, I spend a lot of my work time immersed in this sort of thing and
> how it differs between distributions, so I tend to forget that most
> developers are able to stick to one distro and don't need to know this!
no offense at all, and thanks
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