On Sun, 2021-08-22 at 07:45 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> writes: > > > I've asked this before - I might be very wrong, but I was under the > > impression that having both /bin/foo and /usr/bin/foo (which is the > > example mentioned) was already considered RC-buggy and needed > > fixing? > > Is that not the case? > > This is already the case. Policy 10.1: > > To support merged-/usr systems, packages must not install files > in > both /path and /usr/path. For example, a package must not install > both > /bin/example and /usr/bin/example. Thank you - is that intended to mean "the same package", or "any two packages"? Ie, is foo2 allowed to install /bin/foo if foo1 installs /usr/bin/foo or is that RC-buggy too? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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