Re: Making the dpkg database correspond with reality (Was Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms)

Hi, On 8/24/21 2:48 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: So in theory, if we had a program which looked for the top-level symlinks /{bin,lib,sbin} -> /usr/{bin,lib,sbin}, and if they exist, scans dpkg database is scanned looking for of the form /{bin,lib,sbin}/$1, and updates them with /usr/{bin,lib,sb

Re: Making the dpkg database correspond with reality (Was Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms)

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:57:27AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 8/24/21 2:48 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > So in theory, if we had a program which looked for the top-level > > symlinks /{bin,lib,sbin} -> /usr/{bin,lib,sbin}, and if they exist, > > scans dpkg database is scanned l

Re: Making the dpkg database correspond with reality (Was Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms)

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 10:46:45 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > the definition of usrmerged is > relatively well understood (symlinks for /{bin,lib,sbin} to > /usr/{bin,lib,sbin}) For completeness: also /libQUAL to usr/libQUAL, for each libQUAL that either participates in multilib or contains ld.so(

Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

Hello Simon, On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 10:10AM +02, Simon Josefsson wrote: > 1) Trust paths. Some upstreams sign release tarballs with an OpenPGP > release key that Debian trust for making releases. Not all upstream > uses the same key to sign VCS tags/commits, and not all upstreams sign > VCS tags

Re: src:developers-reference - pt_BR translation initiative

Hello, On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 05:52PM GMT, Thiago Pezzo (tico) wrote: > Hi, there, > > I have been thinking about opening a new translation front to our team, when > I saw Holger’s talk about the developer's reference handbook [1]. It would be > another great opportunity to our (small) team to con

Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 04:21:50PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 10:10AM +02, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Signing tarballs is the current > > established best practice -- moving to VCS builds needs a set of new > > schemes to be established and deployed, and I don't see any sing

Graphing the "freeze depression"

Hi, since I know from the past that my talks with "Debian Med" somewhere in the title are not attracting a huge audience I'd like to give you a clear warning here: If you expect to learn something from my talk about medicine or biology - you are definitely wrong here. I will explain only the bar