Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-06 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:35:38PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tech-ctte/-/blob/master/994388_merged_usr_advice/draft.md Many thanks for your work, and sorry for not participating earlier. I agree with you that it would be good to send advice out sooner rather

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 10:37:25AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 at 22:09:31 +, Clint Adams wrote: > > The package description uses the phrases "specific to Debian" and > > "installation scripts of Debian packages". The fact that > > debianutils is used on non-deb

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie writes: > On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 at 22:09:31 +, Clint Adams wrote: >> The fact that 95% of my inbox consists of hatemail about the >> interactive usage of `which` suggests a failure at the latter. > I'm sorry you're receiving hatemail about this package, and that's not > OK, but

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 at 22:09:31 +, Clint Adams wrote: > The package description uses the phrases "specific to Debian" and > "installation scripts of Debian packages". The fact that > debianutils is used on non-deb operating systems suggests a failure > at the former. Given its package