Control: severity -1 wishlist On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 12:01:36PM +0200, Drew Parsons wrote: > Control: severity -1 critical > > > On 2023-09-16 11:43, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 10:36:39AM +0200, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Source: grub2 > > > Version: 2.12~rc1-7 > > > Followup-For: Bug #1051251 > > > Control: severity 1051251 critical > > > > > > This is a critical bug. apt fails on this bug early in its run, and > > > therefore this one bug is preventing *every* *other* package from > > > updating. > > > > You have literally hacked around the dependencies of the packages by > > inserting a fake package to pretend to have merged-usr installed to be > > able to maintain a file system layout the project has decided is no > > longer supported. > > I have done literally nothing to change merged-usr status, apart from > regularly upgrade packages as they come along.
This is not true. init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | merged-usr, and merged-usr only installs if your usr is merged, and usrmerge will convert your system to the supported layout. And that package is essential. The only way you end up in that situation is by messing with the package management system so that you generate a fake package using equivs or similar that Provides: usrmerge or merged-usr, or using the buildd workaround. Maybe you have followed the warnigns from dpkg that were added by his hostile maintainer declaring merged-usr to be unsupported and asking you to run a dangerous dpkg-fsys-usrunmess to mess up your system. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
