On Aug 17, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote: > One package should be responsible for providing those links so that > glibc is not the last package using them. The same way that base-files > ensure that some directories are present. usrmerge is only needed to be installed during the conversion of a non-merged system, so it cannot do this. Putting the links inside some package would not solve the problem of e.g. /lib32/ and /libx32/ being always created even on systems which do not need them. And worse, deleting them would become impossible because they would be created again every time the package is upgraded. Doing this in base-files would require having both a "base-files" and a "base-files-not-merged" package as long as we will keep supporting non-merged systems, and I think that the complexity of managing this (in deboostrap and possibly somewhere else) makes this a non-starter. If this were implemented in a different package then it would need to be Essential (and still require special-casing in debootstrap as long as we will want to support non-merged systems), so I am not sure if this plan would be accepted by all the stakeholders. -- ciao, Marco
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