On Aug 27, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote: > Disallowing such compatibility symlinks means that those programs > can no longer be moved between directories w/o possibly breaking > things that use absolute pathname, which should be considered a bug > in Debian, but is something that still happens. And local admin The solution is to disallow packages to *install* these symlinks, and instead create them in postinst if needed. I have patches for the 11 packages which need to be fixed and I will submit them in a few days. This is being tracked on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=usrmerge;users=md@linux.it For more information about everything-in-usr please read http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/md/usrmerge.git/tree/debian/README.Debian -- ciao, Marco
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