setup_merged_usr: create skip flag when merged-usr is disabled
usrmerge since version 26 allows to skip the conversion when installing by creating a specific flag file in /etc. Create it when --no-merged-usr is used, so that when usrmerge becomes transitively-essential the conversion doesn't happen if the option was specified. This will be needed on buildd installations for some time yet.
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note that the second commit requires a new package that is currently in binary-NEW: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/usrmerge_26.html
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- Resolved by Luca Boccassi
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This will be needed on buildd installations for some time yet
Perhaps:
This will be desirable on buildds for a while, to mitigate packages that don't work on unmerged-/usr systems if they are built on a merged-/usr system. --variant=buildd already implies --no-merged-usr for this reason.
This is also a desirable option to have available for QA systems like autopkgtest and piuparts, if they want to verify that newly-built packages can still install and work on unmerged-/usr systems during the bullseye -> bookworm upgrade. To get this test environment, they can use --no-merged-usr explicitly.
Edited by Simon McVittie - Last reply by Luca Boccassi
