Hi, On 7/27/21 7:23 PM, Calum McConnell wrote:
Of course, one could drop that to two years if you made the dpkg change a little bit more aggressive. Since we already have dpkg creating compatibility symlinks, why not have it also handle the file move? Simply treat all files shipped to /{bin,sbin,lib} as actually being shipped to /usr/{bin,sbin,lib}, and create symlinks accordingly. But that raises an important question.
This might be doable with diversions, but probably only for a closed set of names. The Essential set is closed, but I'd suspect that there are quite a few datacenter deployments (and deployment tools) that add custom packages to debootstrap.
Simon
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