[Piuparts-devel] Bug#860433: Bug#860433: [PATCH] Consider the /usr merge to be acceptable variation

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Thu Sep 7 13:51:50 UTC 2017


Hi Simon,

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 09:25:46AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Files that the dpkg database considers to be in /bin, /sbin, /lib*/**
> are now allowed to be physically in /usr/bin, etc. due to symlinks in
> the root directory, as created by usrmerge or debootstrap --merged-usr.
> 
> debootstrap is likely to switch to --merged-usr by default during the
> buster release cycle. When that happens, piuparts should continue to
> succeed in the resulting base tarballs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>
> Bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860433
> ---
>  debian/changelog |  9 +++++++++
>  piuparts.py      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

I've now merged this patch into the develop branch, thanks!

However I haven't deployed it _yet_ (to piuparts.d.o), so that Andreas also
get's another change to review and comment.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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