On Aug 27, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > I wanted to open this discussion, but it's not clear whether we're ready > yet to actually merge this patch. We are now: there are less than 10 packages left which have not been fixed, all of them with patches I am attaching a revised text. -- ciao, Marco
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 404dc73..74f0a3b 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8508,6 +8508,21 @@ fi
renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, <em>both</em>
programs must be renamed.
</p>
+
+ <p>
+ To support merged /usr systems, packages must not install a
+ file in <file>/usr/bin</file> with the same name as a file in
+ <file>/bin</file> or a file in <file>/usr/sbin</file> with the
+ same name as a file in <file>/sbin</file>.
+ If such a compatibility symlink is needed then it must be
+ managed in the maintainer scripts in a way that will not break
+ when e.g. <file>/usr/bin</file> and <file>/bin</file> are the
+ same directory.
+ Packages must not install a file in <file>/usr/lib</file> (or
+ one of its subdirectories) with the same name as a file in
+ <file>/lib</file> (or the corresponding subdirectory).
+ </p>
+
<p>
Binary executables must not be statically linked with the GNU C
library, since this prevents the binary from benefiting from
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