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Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms



Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> writes:

> I'd expand the definition of Conflicts/Replaces though: packages that
> use names that conflict because of usrmerge would need to declare it,
> because as soon as we teach dpkg to recognize these conflicts, the
> packages would fail to install on stable.

Yes, that's probably the most appropriate place to make a change to Policy
to clarify this.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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