On Sat, 2020-02-15 at 18:31 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Hello, > > afaict we are moving to a usrmerge setup, i.e. with /lib just a > symlink to /usr/lib. So shouldn't packages start installing stuff to > /usr/lib instead of /lib? I would like to do that for libgcrypt, since > I would be able to shorten debian/rules by stopping to split stuff > between /lib (.so) and /usr/lib (.a). Since stretch, it's a requirement that any separate /usr is mounted by an initramfs before the normal init system is started: https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#late-mounting-usr So although usrmerge is optional, I believe there is no need to install libraries under /lib except for the dynamic linkers (which the kernel loads using absolute paths). Ben. > TIA, cu Andreas -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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