On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 11:16 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > It's fine to oversell the advantages of usrmerge. It's not fine to > try > to hide the disadvantages. Nothing is hidden, there's an open bug on the BTS, that's hardly a secret hideout. As others have already explained (and as it was already explained countless times before including in the CTTE threads), and as it is already explained in the bug itself, it is a minor issue at best as dpkg -S was never reliable to begin with, and moreover if it was an issue for scripts those scripts would already be broken given merged- usr has been the default in new installations for the past 2 releases (and for many years in Ubuntu). Therefore it can only be an issue for console users, who can retrain muscle memory and use pattern matching mode: $ dpkg -S bin/passwd passwd: /usr/bin/passwd Finally, a patch was provided out of courtesy and is available on the dpkg BTS attached to the relevant bug, it's up to the maintainer to take it on. We cannot force it. We are certainly not going to block the transition for such a minor and work-aroundable problem. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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