Am 17.11.2021 um 19:57 schrieb Sam Hartman:
The question is whether we ever get to a place where people can update files in a package currently installed to /bin/foo and instead install them to /usr/bin/foo. We have a consensus that dpkg bugs make that a bad idea.
Is that really so? If I'm not mistaken, the problematic part was moving files from / to /usr and at the same time moving files between packages. So doing that at the same time can be problematic. If that would affect many packages is another question.
AIUI simply moving files from / to /usr within the same package is not problematic.
Sam, am I missing something here?