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Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms



On 2021-08-20 23:15, Simon Richter wrote:
> I think that one of the release goals should be that any freshly installed
> or upgraded system should have a dpkg database that is consistent with
> reality, and I'd prioritize that higher than actually finishing the
> transition, because as long as we can have files vanish from under us, we
> can't expect that the transition will be reliable for bullseye->bookworm
> updates.
> 
> Basically, we've been lucky so far.

I am not sure we have been so lucky. Problems have been found during the
release cycles, some of them got fixed (#953562), some other are still
there (#926699).

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