Simon McVittie writes ("Re: individual packages moving binaries from /bin to
/usr/bin (was: Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)"):
> I'm not sure yet what the best plan for merged /usr is. I would definitely
> like to make sure it's at least possible to continue to use merged
> /usr
Quoting Holger Levsen :
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:11:24PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
Reminds me of the long /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition in potato
times. And we did not even have dh in those days. Sounds good to me!
ITYM s#potato#slink, potato, woody, sarge, etch and lenny#
On Nov 22, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Well, the iptables case is different: those are compat symlinks created
> by the package's maintainer scripts, not the /bin -> /usr/bin symlinks
> that merged-/usr sets up.
Actually iptables is different because it mixes (incorrectly)
compatibility symlinks
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:11:24PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Reminds me of the long /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition in potato
> times. And we did not even have dh in those days. Sounds good to me!
ITYM s#potato#slink, potato, woody, sarge, etch and lenny#
(Started in 1999 and
Quoting Ansgar Burchardt :
This could also be seen as a slower path to merged-/usr: programs such
as `sed` would be in both /bin and /usr/bin and hard-coding either would
be fine (as with merged-/usr, but not without). Less static files would
be on a read-write root file system (if /usr is a
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 21:08:14 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> If we want to support packages such as iptables moving binaries from
> /{s,}bin to /usr/{s,}bin
To be honest, I'm not sure whether we do want this. We should be careful,
at least.
Now that we don't support booting without /usr[1],
Russ Allbery writes:
> Ansgar Burchardt writes:
>> Moving files around in such a matter that they are still available in
>> the old location (via a symlink) is not a very invasive change, so there
>> is only a small risk of problems.
>
> I think it's fair to note that our past experience in
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