Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default
Marc Haber writes:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 07:20:57PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>> * Currently, according to my `apt-file`, 259 binaries are shipped in /bin
>> directly, accross 85 packages. (for /sbin, 597 binaries for 190 packages).
>
> This might sound like a stupid question, what will happen when a package
> built on a usrmerged System will be installed on a non-usrmerged system?
>
> Will binaries move from /usr/bin to /bin? Or will binaries move from
> /bin to /usr/bin?
They will be installed in the place the package installs them. Note
that there are no /bin -> /usr/bin symlink in the staging area where the
package is built (i.e. debian/${package} or debian/tmp).
Packages have to continue shipping binaries in /bin unless we decide to
make merged-/usr mandatory and convert existing systems.
Ansgar
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