Bug#1142015: Please consider adding support for $DPKG_ROOT to support creating bootable Hurd systems on Linux

[Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues]

Hi,

Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2026-07-27 07:36:45)
> Hello Debian sysvinit maintainers, hello Matthew,
> 
> I wanted to send a friendly ping about bug #1142015 which I submitted two weeks
> ago for a MR I submitted a month ago on salsa.
> 
> According to the CI pipeline of [1] this is the last remaining issue before my
> patch to debvm is able to output directly bootable Debian GNU/Hurd images built
> on Linux with packages directly from the archive.
> 
> Since the default value of $DPKG_ROOT is the empty string, I believe that it is
> fairly trivial to verify that my patch cannot result in any functional
> behaviour difference when installing the package the normal way (without dpkg
> --force-script-chrootless) and should thus be safe to apply.
> 
> My exams for this semester are over now and I'd like to spend my free time on
> the GNU/Hurd topic again, so I wanted to send you a ping about it.  No
> pressure! :) But if you are just short on time, I can also offer to NMU
> orphan-sysvinit-scripts for you.

the last reply by Matthew on this topic was 4 weeks ago in the salsa MR3. Since
I didn't receive any reply to my ping in this bug 2 weeks ago and since this is
the last bug blocking my other work in Debian on GNU/Hurd, and because I think
I am confident that this change cannot break user systems, I'm performing an
NMU of orphan-sysvinit-scripts with maximum delay of 15 days. Please cancel the
NMU if you think that this change is a bad idea (and please explain what I can
do better).

I have attached a debdiff and pushed the remaining changes to salsa MR3.

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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