Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:
> Am 17.11.2021 um 19:57 schrieb Sam Hartman:
>> The question is whether we ever get to a place where people can update
>> files in a package currently installed to /bin/foo and instead install
>> them to /usr/bin/foo.
>> We have a consensus that dpkg bugs make that a bad idea.
>
> Is that really so? If I'm not mistaken, the problematic part was
> moving files from / to /usr and at the same time moving files between
> packages. So doing that at the same time can be problematic. If that
> would affect many packages is another question.
>
> AIUI simply moving files from / to /usr within the same package is not
> problematic.

Won't you then end up with a package which cannot be split for the next
two releases?  Maybe not a big problem, but I think it will be so hard
to keep track of that it's better to not move the files.


Bjørn