On Thu, 2022-03-24 at 16:22 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> writes: > > > If it was possible to do it, it would have already happened, and we > > wouldn't be discussing it at all, it would have just been done. > > Has someone written a patch against dpkg that causes it to do the right > thing? > > > In the end, at the very least this is a _workable_ proposal. It might > > not be ideal, but we know it can work. What's your counter-proposal? > > Someone who believes strongly in merged-/usr should write a patch against > dpkg that causes it to work properly with merged-/usr, including edge > cases like files moving out of /bin and /lib between packages and dpkg -S > working properly. > > I understand that you don't think that patch will be accepted. But we > don't actually know that since so far as I know it doesn't exist. We're > arguing in the abstract about a future problem that hasn't happened yet > because we don't have working code to argue about.
Let me reverse the question: this stuff has been known and going on for what, 3 years? Why do _you_ think it is that nobody has stepped up to write a patch? In the same time lapse everybody involved has written mountains of code elsewhere. Why do you think this is different? > -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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