Re: Another usrmerge complication

2024-03-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Simon and Simon, On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 12:08:21PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 11:23:28 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > > When /bin is a symlink to usr/bin, > > and I install two packages, where one installs /bin/foo and the other > > installs /usr/bin/foo > > My readi

Re: Another usrmerge complication

2024-03-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 11:23:28 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > When /bin is a symlink to usr/bin, > and I install two packages, where one installs /bin/foo and the other > installs /usr/bin/foo My reading of Policy is that this situation is already a Policy violation: To support merged-/usr sy

Another usrmerge complication

2024-03-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, because life isn't hard enough as it is: When /bin is a symlink to usr/bin, and I install two packages, where one installs /bin/foo and the other installs /usr/bin/foo, then, if both are installed in the same dpkg invocation, the contents of the first package end up being installed, while