Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release
Marco d'Itri, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 12:04:07 +0100, wrote:
> On Nov 13, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
> > Thus I think that debootstrap should revert to unmerged /usr until
> > dpkg-shlibdeps has been fixed. Fixing is non-trivial and likely requires
> > an archive rebuild on several architectures.
> Not really: dpkg-shlibdeps just needs to be fixed to search for
> libraries in $directory and /usr/$directory, and then everything will
> work again as usual.
Then that should be fixed before enabling "merged-usr by default".
> And yes, hacks like this one are a side effect of maintaining support
> for non-merged systems.
Rather, a side effect of taking into account the whole lot of existing
packages, whose file list show libraries either in /lib or /usr/lib.
Samuel
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