Re: usrmerge in bookworm
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 11:06:56AM +0200, Steve Keller wrote:
> $ dpkg -S $(type -p sh)
> dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/sh
>
> And I don't see a comfortable way around this.
Yeah, usrmerge is a bit wonky in these early stages. Part of the reason
for this is that it's not *mandatory*, not really. There are still
Debian systems -- important ones, which run the internal infrastructure
of Debian itself -- that aren't using it.
So, in order to continue to accomodate the non-merged systems, packages
that provide certain well-known legacy pathnames like /bin/ls must
continue to do so. They can't move to providing /usr/bin/ls because
that may break things on non-merged systems.
Corner cases like the one you showed are going to remain in place for
many years.
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