Bug#1091995: Call for votes

Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Mar 2025 20:13:49 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.ctte
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 08:59:44PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> A) The Technical Committee affirms that base-files should own all 
> top-level filesystem aliases, and packages that conflict with this must 
> be patched in Debian to avoid creating any aliases that conflict with 
> base-files (overrules the systemd maintainer, requires 3:1 majority 
> vote)
> 
> B) The Technical Committee requests that base-files create an empty 
> /usr/lib64 directory, even on architectures that do not use lib64. If 
> systemd creates a symlink, this will then match the behaviour of 
> base-files and avoid the issue (overrules the base-files maintainer, 
> requires 3:1 majority vote)
> 
> C) The Technical Committee requests that base-files preinst check 
> whether /lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib and, if so, replace it with a 
> symlink to /usr/lib64 (overrules the base-files maintainer, requires 3:1 
> majority vote)
> 
> N) None of the above / Further Discussion

I vote A > N > B = C

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