usrmerge package

[Josh Triplett]

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/md/usrmerge.git
>
> Please let me know if anything should be changed before I upload the
> package to the archive.

Thanks for working on this!

Given that this isn't reversible, consider making the warning to that
effect in the Description more dire.

You might also try adding "Important: yes" to it and testing the effect
of that in package managers (with a ping to the apt and dpkg folks to
confirm the semantics).  As far as I know, that acts like "Essential:
yes" in providing warnings about removing the package, except that
unlike Essential, it doesn't force the installation of the package.  (If
it does force installation, that'd be a problem, hence the suggestion to
ping the apt and dpkg folks.)

For similar reasons, while I'd like to see packages start to rely on
this, for now I think it'd be appropriate to ping the lintian folks
about adding usrmerge to their list of packages that nothing else may
depend on.

Have you started the process of getting a Policy proposal together about
handling everything-in-/usr (optional symlinks, etc), to point new
packages at and to base Lintian warnings on?

Minor nit: Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser should use secure protocols
(https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/md/usrmerge.git and
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/md/usrmerge.git respectively).  A
quick check confirms that anonscm.debian.org uses a certificate
authority that's valid on non-Debian systems as well, so there's no harm
in doing so.

Consider adding a link somewhere to the BTS usertag for usrmerge bugs.

- Josh Triplett