Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-09-01 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 09:23, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > At least three DDs have asked you to stop. Why do you continue? > > In all of your mails to this bug, I've seen little attempt at trying to > understand other participants. In a project as large as Debian, it is to > be expected

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-09-01 Thread Ansgar
Hi Ian, On Wed, 2023-08-30 at 12:52 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Debian has historically been simply much more reliable. Could you quantify this? This is not my experience. As far as I understand you often use non-standard configurations (split-/usr, non-standard init system, ...) which might

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-09-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Luca, At least three DDs have asked you to stop. Why do you continue? In all of your mails to this bug, I've seen little attempt at trying to understand other participants. In a project as large as Debian, it is to be expected that disagreement arises. That's not the end of the world, but it

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-08-31 Thread Luca Boccassi
ntable number of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Arch, SUSE, Yocto, Gentoo, etc. installations, for a decade in some of those cases. > Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more > messages]"): > > In order to prefer Debian ove

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2023-08-30 Thread Ian Jackson
is OK to refer to files by the "wrong" name, which cannot even be stated clearly, let along succinctly. Despite all this, apparently when we argue for continued reliance on this disproven assertion we go back to imprecise statements. Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-28 Thread Philip Hands
Helmut Grohne writes: ... > As such, my expectation is that moving from where we are to your idea > is not any easier than moving from a post-DEP-17 state. Therefore, I > do not see any need to delay DEP-17 work. I've been wondering about this possibility too. If a symlink flowerbed is where we

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 at 11:30, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Dear Luca, > > On 27/08/2023 03:16, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > [things] > > You've already been asked by a couple of people to moderate your tone in > this thread. I appreciate there is a lot of frustration around > /usr-merge, but your

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 at 18:03, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > TL;DR: I think I understand one of Ian's points. I explain, but do not > believe it is compelling as an argument to switch direction. > > > "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: > >> I think "package management" is the wrong term here.

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Sam Hartman
TL;DR: I think I understand one of Ian's points. I explain, but do not believe it is compelling as an argument to switch direction. > "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: >> I think "package management" is the wrong term here. It's not >> just our tools and packages that are

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Ian, On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > And, the approach being taken very seriously privileges De

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Ansgar
Hi Matthew, On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 11:30 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Any such consideration must be mindful of the fact that the majority of > Debian installs are now /usr-merged, which means that the complexity of > unwinding such installs has to be a heavy factor in thinking about >

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
Dear Luca, On 27/08/2023 03:16, Luca Boccassi wrote: [things] You've already been asked by a couple of people to moderate your tone in this thread. I appreciate there is a lot of frustration around /usr-merge, but your contributions are not helping with that at all. Nor do they help us have

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-26 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 at 11:27, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > And, the approach being taken very seriously privileges Debian itsel

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Helmut Grohne writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > And, the approach being taken very seriously privileges Debian itself, > > and those well-staffed derivatives able to do the necessar

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 06:50:54AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > If someone wants to go this way, I suggest to just have a GR about it > instead of iterating this at tech-ctte yet again. It's not very > motivating to have some people endlessly argue against moving forward > and wanting to

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-24 Thread Ansgar
Control: retitle -1 migrate from merged-/usr to new alternative filesystem layout On Thu, 2023-08-24 at 13:36 -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > > > > For myself, I think the issues raised in DEP17 are significant enough > that I would at least read a proposal to explain a different way to get >

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-24 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ansgar" == Ansgar writes: Ansgar> And the more important question: how often do we want to Ansgar> rehash the usrmerge discussion? At some point we should Ansgar> stick with a decision and not endlessly restart discussions Ansgar> (unless something really significant

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-24 Thread Ansgar
Hi Simon, On Wed, 2023-08-23 at 20:12 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I'm keen to avoid the anti-pattern where a valid technical point gets > disregarded or even opposed because the way it was expressed puts > other project members on the defensive. [...] > I alluded to that in a previous mail to

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-23 Thread Ansgar
Hi, On Wed, 2023-08-23 at 17:04 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > > What do you consider to be the end goal of this proposal? > > Desired end state > = > > This is a very good qu

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Ian, On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Desired end state > = > > This is a very good question. I had a very constructive conversation > with Helmut via video chat. It seems that there's a misunderstanding > about the desired end state. I concur.

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 at 17:04:36 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > > What do you consider to be the end goal of this proposal? > > My idea of a desired end state is as follows: > > /bin and /

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Also, one other thing I noticed: tl;dr: *no* version of usrmerge relieves us of the obligation of naming files correctly, via the proper name in /usr rather than /. Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > The current plan, as I understand it, is tha

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing"): > What do you consider to be the end goal of this proposal? Desired end state = This is a very good question. I had a very constructive conversation with Helmut via video chat. It seems

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing

2023-08-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 at 07:57:14 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think we can probably fix it by backing out this change, and then > doing usrmerge the traditional Debian way by making changes to > debhelper, so that we move the files package by package, in the .debs. What do you consider to be the