Re: usr-is-merged package in bullseye?

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 04:45:40PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > There's a package usr-is-merged that will stop usrmerge being installed
> > with init-system-helpers (and so avoids bringing in its dependencies)
> > but I don't see that available in bullseye.
> >
> > Most of my systems are already merged /usr and I'd prefer to avoid
> > bringing in unnecessary packages when I upgrade to bookworm (which will
> > be after bookworm becomes stable). Will the usr-is-merged package be
> > added to bullseye before then?
>
> Added to bullseye?  That sounds unlikely.  New packages are almost never
> *added* to a stable release.
>
> I can only guess that once we're in the bookworm freeze, some instructions
> will start to appear for how users are expected to manage the transition.

I might be misunderstanding but I was expecting bookworm to get the
dependency init-system-helpers -> usrmerge imminently. Sid gets it, I
think, on Thursday.

That's why I want usr-is-merged on my bullseye systems. I'll backport
from bookworm.

Yes, on a migration you can add bookworm sources, apt-get install
usr-is-merged, and then do the upgrade, but I'll probably forget, I've
still got a couple of machines on buster to deal with first.

Tim.