Bug#914897: #914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Hideki Yamane writes: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 15:15:21 + > Simon McVittie wrote: >> > - What is the problem? (broken build for which packages? Just R?) >> >> The problem we're aware of is: >> >> Some packages auto-detect the absolute path to an executable (for example >> bash or perl)

Bug#914897: #914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-04 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, Thanks Simon, it's perhaps clear for me now. On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 15:15:21 + Simon McVittie wrote: > > - What is the problem? (broken build for which packages? Just R?) > > The problem we're aware of is: > > Some packages auto-detect the absolute path to an executable (for example >

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Adam Borowski writes: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 06:48:45PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> In very rare cases (an estimated 0.3% of the archive or so). I'm fairly >> confident that for more than 0.3% of the archive something can go wrong >> when building in non-clean environments. > > Your

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 07:21:11PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Your figure of ~80 packages counts only packages which went through a > reproducible-builds rebuild. We later learned only a part of the archive > got rebuilt since the bad debootstrap backport. wrong, sigh. -- cheers,

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 06:48:45PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing"): > >> Switching to (1) or (3a-with-no-support-in-buster) will mean merged-/usr > >> systems would no longer be supported. In this case

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ian Jackson writes: > Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing"): >> Switching to (1) or (3a-with-no-support-in-buster) will mean merged-/usr >> systems would no longer be supported. In this case someone would have >> to write a unusrmerge program to convert systems with

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing"): > Switching to (1) or (3a-with-no-support-in-buster) will mean merged-/usr > systems would no longer be supported. In this case someone would have > to write a unusrmerge program to convert systems with merged-/usr to > systems

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
"Alexander E. Patrakov" writes: > Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Making the feature default was discussed years ago which you are surely >> aware of. It's not mandatory. > > Unfortunately I have to disagree here. Merged /usr is already, > de-facto, mandatory for everyone who installs Debian Testing