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Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?



On Feb 01, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:

> I'd strongly urge the opposite order: FIRST decree that no package may
> ship any file to non-canonical path (ie, have dpkg extract anything over
> a symlink), and only then flip the switch.
There is no "switch": this decision only certifies what we have been 
doing by default for two releases.
Almost all new Debian systems are already installed this way.

> Contrary to talk about a "20 years transition", I estimate there's just
> ~100 sources that would have to be changed.
Then if you believe that the current situation is troublesome you may 
start now and it will be easy!

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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