Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 03:34:27PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> ...And to be clear: We at the TC are *not* doing detailed design
> work. But I want to state (and not as part of the vote, but just as
> yet another DD) that the only way I feel makes sense to continue now
> is via Simon's ① option: Symlinking /bin → /usr/bin, /lib → /usr/lib,
> /sbin → /usr/sbin, etc.
> 
> That will allow us to take a step later on to mandate packages not
> shipping files in the no-longer-root-level-directories, but that
> should be at least one further release cycle down the lane.

I'd strongly urge the opposite order: FIRST decree that no package may
ship any file to non-canonical path (ie, have dpkg extract anything over
a symlink), and only then flip the switch.

Contrary to talk about a "20 years transition", I estimate there's just
~100 sources that would have to be changed.


Meow!
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