Hi Michael, On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 04:25:25PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > to help with the usrmove effort, Helmut wrote dh_movetousr. > This helper was meant as temporary measure, especially to simplify > backports. > > Going forward, I think we should remove this addon again from debhelper > and packages should install files directly into non-aliased locations. > > For that, I filed corresponding bug reports [1]. > > In addition, I think it would be useful, if dh_movetousr became a noop > with compat 15 (or rather, error out) and maybe also output a warning > for compat < 15, saying that this addon is deprecated and scheduled to be > removed. > > Before actually removing the addon, the list of rdeps [1] needs to > shrink significantly I think and we'd also have to keep backports of > debhelper in mind. > > There is no real hurry that but I would like to see this cleaned up > eventually. > > Helmut, Niels, wdyt?
Thank you. I second the approach that you propose. The helper is relevant to packages that need to be backported to bookworm or earlier. I do not quite see packages with compat level 15 as being backported that far. The rare packages that do need this backporting sould be ok with having the deprecation warning in their log, but the warning likely helps with reducing the long tail. Please go ahead. Helmut
