Small update here Am 05.07.26 um 12:19 schrieb Niels Thykier:
With that in mind, I am personally in favor of churning through the list of affected packages and then throwing out the code once they have been fixed. A compat level change seems too cumbersome and long winded for me given my understanding of the scope. At least from my current PoV, it seems like a much more lightweight, faster, and better approach.I went ahead and looked again at the list of affected packages. 2 were fixed in the mean time, without the bug having been closed (updated the bug status accordingly). For the rest, I created patches and submitted them to the bug reports (aside from packages which use dh_movetousr conditionally). This resulted in 2 more uploads and 2 bug fixes pending. So we are currently down to 24 open bug reports, 2 pending. So I hope the list will further shrink significantly before forky is released.
That said, one maintainer (Christoph Berg) explicitly asked for dh_movetousr not to be removed until LTS falls out of support [1].
On a similar note, the Linux kernel package is also affected [2], and they even backport to ELTS (via freexian).
Regards, Michael [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1122775#18[2] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1723#note_700451
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