Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > debootstrap in unstable can now install with merged-/usr, that is > with > /bin, /sbin, /lib* being symlinks to their counterpart in /usr. Run > > debootstrap --merged-usr testing .../testing http://deb.debian.org/ > debian > > to give it a try.
As I was just asked on IRC: One can also test installations using d-i. The images from [1] already include the new debootstrap (at least on amd64), then just switch to a shell early, run `nano /usr/sbin/debootstrap` and change MERGED_USR="no" to MERGED_USR="yes" and continue with the installation. There might be a smarter way to do this, but for a quick test this should work good enough. If we switch the default to merged-/usr, an explicit opt-out preseeding option might be helpful to smoothen the transition, given users one more cycle to adapt to the changes. Ansgar [1] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ amd64/iso-cd
