On Mon, 2021-07-19 at 16:41:42 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > So what what is actually the roadmap after the bullseye release? What is the > way forward? Should I rather file bugs with patches against individual > packages > to move their files from /(sbin|bin|lib)/ to /usr/(sbin|bin|lib)/ or do we > already have a debhelper patch to do that move for us?
Unfortunately, when the supporters of the merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs pushed their approach into the distribution, that meant that package stopped being able to ship compatibility symlinks under «/», and those needed to be "handled" in maintscripts (by reimplementing poorly and unsafely what dpkg is supposed to do). This means dpkg is not in the loop and cannot perform a safe upgrade moving these pathnames safely, as long as merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs is supported. This is all kinds of nasty, because a proposal that has a complete disregard for the packaging system, and is founded on assumptions about features that do not even exist, is also forcing that design breakage into a solution that would otherwise require no such hacks. :( > This would mean that we only have to bear with the problems mentioned by > guillem until that move is complete, correct? No. Even if today we magically could get all .debs shipping object directly under «/usr» instead of «/», and had the aliased symlinks in place, the problems I've mentioned would pretty much be in place. Regards, Guillem
