On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:22:38 -0700 Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> 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.
I think it's appropriate for people to wait on such work until there's guidance from the TC ensuring that such a patch will be accepted. Otherwise, anyone spending time writing it is spending substantial effort that may well be wasted. I am also hoping that such a patch is not a precondition for removing the message from the current dpkg maintainer script, which is already causing issues.
