Re: usrmerge in bookworm

From	Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: usrmerge in bookworm
Date	2023-10-07 09:10 +0200
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On 2023-10-06 22:32 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:42:56PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> writes:
>>
>> > Yeah, usrmerge is a bit wonky in these early stages.
>>
>>     $ apt-get changelog usrmerge | tail -n2
>>      -- Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>  Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:42:44 +0100
>>     Fetched 11.0 kB in 0s (58.9 kB/s)
>>
>> Not what I'd call 'early' stages.
>
> It is for Debian, when the maintainer of dpkg is strongly opposed
> to, and refuses to co-operate with, anything related to usrmerge.
>
> It got done years ago in Ubuntu, and their dpkg doesn't have this
> issue, as they've carried patches for that for all those years.

Ubuntu may have patched out the dpkg complaints about usrmerge, but they
have _not_ added proper support for it.  For instance, the problem
mentioned by the OP is present in Ubuntu's dpkg.

Cheers,
       Sven

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usrmerge in bookworm Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2023-10-06 11:30 +0200
  Re: usrmerge in bookworm Marco <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-06 11:50 +0200
    Re: usrmerge in bookworm Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2023-10-06 15:50 +0200
  Re: usrmerge in bookworm Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-06 13:20 +0200
    Re: usrmerge in bookworm Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2023-10-06 16:50 +0200
      Re: usrmerge in bookworm Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-10-07 00:40 +0200
        Re: usrmerge in bookworm Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2023-10-07 09:10 +0200
          Re: usrmerge in bookworm Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-10-07 22:30 +0200

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