On Wed, 25 Oct 2017, KatolaZ wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 08:33:42PM +0200, Ivan J. wrote:
> > Let's split this into a separate thread.
> >
> > Today I pushed Svante's patch to make it libeudev. We have two options
> > at this moment:
> >

> > 1) Use Svante's patched version and create a dummu udev transitional
> >    package, which would pull in eudev and libeudev.

> >
> > 2) Use Arno's version with an epoch of 1: and try that out.
> >
> > Will 2) also require a dummy transitional package?
> >
> > To completely test both options we will most probably be required to
> > "break" ascii, and build this as an ascii package - in the main repo.
> >
> > Can we reach consensus on what to do at this point and how to proceed?
> >
>
> We don't need to break ascii. We can put it in ascii-proposed-updates.

ascii-proposed-updates aren't the default repo, meaning we can't do a
proper debootstrap ensuring eudev is pulled in. Furthermore,
ascii-proposed-updates have a NotAutomatic stanza in the Release header.

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