On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:28:45AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Also, as is has been discussed, if the /usr/doc/ transition was > representative then this would probably take many years.
You keep using that as an argument. I think it's very disinginuous to point to a problem Debian had over 20 years ago[1] and say "look, we don't know how to do this quickly". It's not like things haven't changed since. We can (and should, IMO) declare *today* that for bookworm, shipping files in / (as opposed to /usr) that are not compatibility symlinks will be RC. You can start writing a lintian check today for the same. If we take both these steps, this will only take us one release cycle, and the dpkg maintainers can come up with a plan to remove /bin and friends and replace them by symlinks in ways that will not confuse dpkg. [1] the /usr/doc transition was in progress when I first joined Debian, 20 years ago. I don't remember the start of it, but I do remember it ending. -- To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard
