On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:05:26 -0600 Gunnar Wolf <gw...@debian.org> wrote:
> However, even given his attitude, I trust he would apply a correctly
> done patch addressing the issue at hand.
I just read the dpkg git commit
(57e084a52e1ede33b7914c3e0357311ac370a186) that added this warning in
the first place. Quoting the commit message:
> debian: Warn in postinst about merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs breakage
>
> dpkg does not, and has never supported this filesystem layout even less
> so the way it has been deployed as it bypasses dpkg entirely. It can
> cause file loss, file overwrites, unexpected query results, among other
> things, while being very insidious to detect if one is not aware. Adding
> support for it would be rather infeasible and gets in the way of features
> that have been on the works for some time now.
The last sentence ("Adding support for it would be rather infeasible and
gets in the way of features that have been on the works for some time
now.") would seem to be an objection to adding such support even given a
patch.
