Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?
On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 at 13:35:28 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 03:34:27PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> > I want to state (and not as part of the vote, but just as
> > yet another DD) that the only way I feel makes sense to continue now
> > is via Simon's ① option: Symlinking /bin → /usr/bin, /lib → /usr/lib,
> > /sbin → /usr/sbin, etc.
> >
> > That will allow us to take a step later on to mandate packages not
> > shipping files in the no-longer-root-level-directories, but that
> > should be at least one further release cycle down the lane.
>
> 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.
I don't want to repeat myself, so please see
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2021/01/msg00031.html> for one
reason why that doesn't work (unless you have a solution that I've
missed).
smcv
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