On 11/28/18 2:49 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Recently debootstrap was changed to do merged-/usr by default, so that > /bin -> /usr/bin etc. > > It was discovered that when this change took effect on the Debian > buildds, the buildds started to build packages which do not work on > non-merged-/usr systems. > > This is a special case of a general problem: buster systems with > merged-/usr sometimes build packages which are broken on > non-merged-/usr systems. > > Some people have suggested that this should be fixed by making > merged-/usr mandatory for buster. However, there is no transition > plan for this as yet and I don't think Debian is ready to commit to do > that. > I'd suggest that this should be fixed by not shipping any packages that aren't built on buildds.
Cheers, Julien
