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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=4890f5ef0749214484bf7288ed16e589ebf13dab commit 4890f5ef0749214484bf7288ed16e589ebf13dab Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Thu Mar 24 19:29:17 2022 +0100 debian: Reword merged-usr-via-aliased-dirs to be less vague Try to very succinctly summarize the problem with the affected systems, and the reason why dpkg does _not_ and has _never_ supported that filesystem layout and the way it has been deployed in Debian. Changelog: silent --- debian/dpkg.postinst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/dpkg.postinst b/debian/dpkg.postinst index 4c81baaf2..280b49a86 100644 --- a/debian/dpkg.postinst +++ b/debian/dpkg.postinst @@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ check_merged_usr_via_aliased_dirs() for d in /bin /sbin /lib /lib32 /libo32 /libx32 /lib64; do linkname="$(readlink $DPKG_ROOT$d || true)" if [ "$linkname" = "usr$d" ] || [ "$linkname" = "/usr$d" ]; then - warning "System unsupported by dpkg due to merged-usr-via-aliased-dirs." - warning "This can imply silent file overwrites and disappearances, and tools misbehavior." + warning "This system uses merged-usr-via-aliased-dirs, going behind dpkg's" + warning "back, breaking its core assumptions. This can cause silent file" + warning "overwrites and disappearances, and its general tools misbehavior." warning "See <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#broken-usrmerge>." break fi -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
