Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2017-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
wf...@niif.hu (Ferenc Wágner) writes: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:33:13 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: >> + To support merged-/usr systems, packages must not >> + install files in both path > Is there a reason to omit the leading slash in this construct? I think > I'd

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2017-05-29 Thread Ferenc Wágner
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:33:13 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: > + To support merged-/usr systems, packages must not > + install files in both path Is there a reason to omit the leading slash in this construct? I think I'd find /path more symmetric and thus easier to

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > Seconded. > Though shouldn't this be worded a bit more generic? There are also > /lib32 vs /usr/lib32 and /lib64 vs /usr/lib64 (and possibly other > suffixes like libx32). > Also I don't think Policy should require maintainer scripts for the >

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-07-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:56:31 +0100 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Though shouldn't this be worded a bit more generic? There are also > /lib32 vs /usr/lib32 and /lib64 vs /usr/lib64 (and possibly other > suffixes like libx32). > > Also I don't think Policy should require maintainer

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-03-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 07 Mar 2016, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Though shouldn't this be worded a bit more generic? There are also > /lib32 vs /usr/lib32 and /lib64 vs /usr/lib64 (and possibly other > suffixes like libx32). > > Also I don't think Policy should require maintainer scripts for the > implementation

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-03-07 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello! On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:56:31PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > So to recap, Marco proposal is > >  > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > > index 404dc73..74f0a3b 100644 > > --- a/policy.sgml > > +++ b/policy.sgml > > @@ -8508,6 +8508,21 @@ fi > >     

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-03-07 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Bill Allombert wrote: > So to recap, Marco proposal is >  > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 404dc73..74f0a3b 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -8508,6 +8508,21 @@ fi >     renamed.  If a consensus cannot be reached, both >     programs must be renamed. >  

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Bill Allombert wrote: > So to recap, Marco proposal is > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 404dc73..74f0a3b 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -8508,6 +8508,21 @@ fi > renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, both > programs

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-03-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 02:08:34AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 24, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > I wanted to open this discussion, but it's not clear whether we're ready > > > yet to actually merge this patch. > > We are now: there are less than 10 packages left which have

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-03-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 24, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I wanted to open this discussion, but it's not clear whether we're ready > > yet to actually merge this patch. > We are now: there are less than 10 packages left which have not been > fixed, all of them with patches We are down to 4 broken

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-01-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 27, Russ Allbery wrote: > I wanted to open this discussion, but it's not clear whether we're ready > yet to actually merge this patch. We are now: there are less than 10 packages left which have not been fixed, all of them with patches I am attaching a revised text. --

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Marco d'Itri , 2016-01-24, 12:27: We are now: there are less than 10 packages left which have not been fixed, all of them with patches I couldn't find bugs for these packages: * yp-tools + hostname: /bin/domainname /bin/nisdomainname /bin/ypdomainname * pm-utils +

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2016-01-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 24, Jakub Wilk wrote: > I couldn't find bugs for these packages: Thank you. Hopefully now that the lintian check has been merged we should not get many new bugs... > * yp-tools + hostname: I opened #812532, looks like my development/check-contents script is buggy

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2014-11-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 27, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: Disallowing such compatibility symlinks means that those programs can no longer be moved between directories w/o possibly breaking things that use absolute pathname, which should be considered a bug in Debian, but is something that still

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2014-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist I could have sworn we already had a bug open about this, but I couldn't find it. If someone else does find it, please merge. Some other distributions have merged /bin, /sbin, and /lib into /usr via the symlinks: /bin - /usr/bin /sbin -

Bug#759492: File conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin

2014-08-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 09:59:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist I could have sworn we already had a bug open about this, but I couldn't find it. If someone else does find it, please merge. I'm not sure if you were thinking about #562863? Although