[HN Gopher] Debian pauses /usr merge file moves ___________________________________________________________________ Debian pauses /usr merge file moves Author : gslin Score : 14 points Date : 2023-05-17 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (lwn.net) (TXT) w3m dump (lwn.net) | price wrote: | A comment there on LWN, from a Debian developer, adds useful | context: | | > [T]his is a misleading writeup of a Debian-internal | announcement. One specific action that is mostly internal to | Debian, which some developers wanted to push ahead with after the | bookworm release, has been paused. | | > On a merged-/usr system (which will include all Debian 12 and | Debian 13 systems, both new installations and upgrades), both | /bin/cat and /usr/bin/cat exist, but dpkg is only aware of one of | those paths (/bin/cat in this case); in dpkg jargon, the other is | said to be an alias. The specific action that should not proceed | until further notice is: swapping the path that dpkg considers to | be canonical, for example from /bin/cat to /usr/bin/cat. | | In particular, the thing that this announcement pauses is only a | shuffling of internal metadata. For users, /usr will already look | merged either way. | | The other bit of context is that this "pause" comes as Debian | approaches its next major release, and they expect to unpause it | shortly after that. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-05-17 23:00 UTC)