On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 11:40, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> >On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:40, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 07:40:00AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> >> >
> >> >The core issue as I see it is as follows:
> >> >
> >> >- Debian has decided to support only merged-/usr, including possibly
> >> >  moving /bin/sh to /usr/bin/sh or using /usr/lib*/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> >> >  as the interpreter in binaries.
> >>
> >> WTF? *Nobody* has been talking about breaking ABI like this, that I've
> >> seen. The interpreter must *not* be changed willy-nilly.
> >
> >Nothing's happening 'willy-nilly'. We are discussing a bunch of
> >seemingly crazy options, as in, "what would _actually_ explode if we
> >do this or do that?", on this very d-devel thread. I posted a longer
> >version here some days ago:
> >
> >https://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2023/05/msg00030.html
>
> Oh holy fuck.
>
> You're talking about changing ABI by doing this. That *is* utterly
> crazy. No.

It's a thought experiment on a mailing list. If we can't even have
those anymore, something went very wrong somewhere.

You seem to be aware of things that wouldn't work anymore (I think?).
If you have a couple of minutes to spare, may I please ask you to
reply to that thread with such examples? I am genuinely interested in
understanding and talking about it. Thank you.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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