Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2018-12-22 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:36:52 + Simon McVittie wrote: > To be completely clear about the decision that Ian asked the technical > committee to overrule: > > In all debootstrap versions since 1.0.102, merged /usr is the default (for > all variants except --variant=buildd). This means that

Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2018-12-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 23, Simon McVittie wrote: > An alternative to the usrmerge package might be to do this transition > in an initramfs hook or something similar, which would guarantee that > nothing else is concurrently altering /usr or the directories that are > meant to be merged into it. FWIW I tried

Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2018-12-22 Thread Simon McVittie
To be completely clear about the decision that Ian asked the technical committee to overrule: In all debootstrap versions since 1.0.102, merged /usr is the default (for all variants except --variant=buildd). This means that new installations of Debian buster using debian-installer will have

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

2018-12-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 at 17:45:11 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 21:04 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > moving hundreds of megabytes from /usr to / over time. > > This solution was proposed by GNU/Hurd several years ago, and was scrapped due > to not being big enough player in the

Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2018-12-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 at 14:03:19 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > How about this case: > > - Make as default non merged-/usr for all buildds. This has been done: I sent patches, which have been applied. (This is actually implemented in two different places, either of which would have been

Policy and procedures issue: init package hijacked via hostile NMU (declined by maintainers)

2018-12-22 Thread Josh Triplett
[Please don't CC me on responses, and please follow up solely to -devel rather than cross-posting.] Please note in the following mail that I'm raising this *exclusively* as a policy and procedures issue, *not* a technical issue. I would request that people *please* focus on the policy and