Dear Debian Developers and Maintainers, I have filled an ITP for the Nix package-manager [1]. During packaging lintian pointed out [2] that Nix relies on a non-standard-toplevel-dir.
The Nix package-manager keeps by default all packages in the path `/nix/store`. In principal this path can be changed, but it would make it impossible to use pre-build binaries from the standard Nixpkgs channels [3]. The problem are retained dependencies. A package keeps references to a package it depends on. And this references contain the absolute path (including `/nix/store`). Section 5.5.3 and 6.1 of the PHD thesis "The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model" [4] on which Nix is based gives some more insight. I would like your advise on how to proceed. Thanks in advance. Regards Kai Harries [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877019 [2] https://github.com/KaiHa/nix-debian/issues/20 [3] https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-building-source [4] https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
