On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 15:53:32 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I've suggested previously that we can easily make it RC for bookworm to > have a file outside a limited set of directories (/etc and /usr would be > OK, but notably /bin /lib and /sbin wouldn't be) that is not a symlink. > This is easy to detect with a lintian check and reasonably easy to > implement
I don't think that works in general without breaking some of Debian's axioms around Essential packages, as previously described here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=978636#118 I have a longer mail written with possible ways forward, which I'm deliberately not sending right now, because the first step in all of these plans is "release Debian 11" and I don't want to distract the people who are making that happen (any more than has already happened). smcv
