Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes: > 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.
Won't you then end up with a package which cannot be split for the next two releases? Maybe not a big problem, but I think it will be so hard to keep track of that it's better to not move the files. Bjørn
