On 23 July 2018 at 13:47, Robie Basak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dimitri, > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:41:03PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> Going forward, I believe, it is useful to enable usr-merge by default >> on new installs, without forcing migration of existing installations >> and continue to support split-usr systems. It will enable our users to >> use their systems in more innovative ways, and reduce the amount of >> any accidental /-vs-/usr mistakes and incompatibilities in the >> archive, and among third-party software. > > Could you please fill us in on Debian's position and status on this? How > much delta do we or would we have to maintain, and how much pain is > there in this maintenance?
The changes are in per-distro scripts in debootstrap. And the Ubuntu ones are synced into Debian on regular basis (once we announce our codenames and/or sync back our changes), thus in practice deltas are short-lived and folded back into Debian uploads of debootstrap. Some of the conflicts in Cosmic have been resolved differently to Debian, thus there are only a small number of packages with different breaks versions / paths to debian, e.g. usrmerge package being the largest delta - which is still very small. Currently, Debian has --merged-usr enabled by default in unstable and testing. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839046 uploaded in 1.0.102, full current changelog at https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/d/debootstrap/changelog-1.0.106 -- Regards, Dimitri. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
