Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 09:57:09AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 08:23:50AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> If we tried to document every random bit of buggy packaging behavior
> >> anyone thought of in Policy, Policy would become unwieldy, so I want to
> >> verify here that someone really thought having one package containing a
> >> file in /bin and another package containing the same file in /usr/bin
> >> was was a reasonable thing to do (as opposed to accidental). Are there
> >> packages in the archive like this? Or could you point me at the
> >> message in the thread that said this was non-buggy? I think I missed
> >> it.
>
> > The problem here is also that if there are two packages like that, on an
> > usrmerge system, we would not know this is happening.
>
> I agree, of course, but I don't see a way in which Policy can help with
> that problem unless this packaging decision was intentional and the person
> who made that decision would have chosen otherwise if Policy had said to
> not do it.
>
> This seems more like an appropriate check for an archive-wide QA tool
> looking for cross-package problems.
Indeed, and that was the point I was trying to make: it's not something
Policy can help with, unless it is intentional (and it is my belief that
this is not likely to be the case).
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