Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 at 16:52:15 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Mon 27 Sep 2021 at 10:59AM +01, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 at 15:35:11 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> (1) The reason for this, to put it a bit simplistically, is that we > >> don't require apt to perform the upgrade

Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 at 09:18:29 -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > [smcv wrote] > >On merged-/usr systems, there is a possible failure mode involving files > >being moved between packages (with Replaces) during the same release > >cycle that their logical location is changed from the root filesystem > >to