On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 09:35 +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose to plan to move to support merged-usr-only over > the following releases. The motivation is bugs like [1] where upstream > developers just use `/usr/bin/rm` (or other binaries, or user scripts > using /usr/bin/bash, or ...) unconditionally; this was already a > motivation to adopt merged-/usr as a default for me. > > As far as I know nothing broke catastrophically over the last releases > with merged-/usr. > > Alternatively, a team could form that preemptively looks at such issues > and fixes them, ideally upstream. > > So a possible idea would be to: > > - For Debian 12 (bookworm): make it mandatory to migrate old systems to > merged-/usr on upgrade. Possibly by allowing the existing usrmerge > program to run from the initramfs. > > - For Debian 13 (trixie): packages should no longer install to /bin, > /sbin, /lib, but to the respective locations under /usr. > > Ansgar > > [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/973853 +1 Thanks for pushing forward with this! -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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