Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
On Wed, 07 Dec 2022 at 20:11:11 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> An improvement to reduce the number of dependencies pulled down by the
> usr-merged debootstrapped image has been available in unstable,
> bookworm and bullseye-backports for a while. I'd like to make this
> improvement available in bullseye as well, as it saves ~50MB on a
> minbase image.
As discussed with jmw at the #debian-uk summer party, I'm repurposing
this bug for a newer debootstrap backport incorporating some changes that
are needed to complete the transition to merged /usr, so it is not ready
for further action until updated. Marking as moreinfo to take it off the
SRMs' radar for now.
(Our intention is that I'll implement and test a release candidate,
Luca will review, and then we'll re-propose this when we're both happy.)
On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 21:07, Jonathan Wiltshire <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> This sounds like a behaviour change in stable, which would be very unusual
> unless it fixes significant issues. Can it really be justified?
The situation has changed since then: bookworm is now stable, bullseye
is oldstable, bookworm has the "new" behaviour, and we're going to need
to make a larger behaviour change in bullseye anyway (for the benefit of
any official buildds that have not yet been upgraded to bookworm).
Aligning bullseye debootstrap behaviour more closely with bookworm seems
likely to be more palatable than entirely new behaviours.
I discussed this with jmw and he agreed the SRMs could consider getting
#1025657 fixed in oldstable. Of course, if the change previously proposed
here seems too risky, we can revert it and keep only the higher-priority
stuff.
smcv
