>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes:
Josh> As another technical alternative, which I haven't seen Josh> mentioned elsewhere in this thread or related bug reports: Josh> when I need to override a packaged binary or file temporarily Josh> for debugging purposes, without forgetting to restore it Josh> later, I tend to use "mount --bind /my/replacement Josh> /usr/bin/foo". For instance, for local testing while Josh> developing dh-cargo, which required a newer version of Cargo Josh> than packaged in Debian at the time, I built a local version Josh> of Cargo and did "mount --bind ~/src/cargo/target/debug/cargo Josh> /usr/bin/cargo". That allowed me to easily test-build Josh> packages before the availability of a Debian package of a Josh> sufficiently new Cargo. O, cool, that's really need. And as a throw-back to an alternate Plan9 history, you could presumably unshare your mount namespace and even do that for a subset of the processes on a system, getting almost all the benefits of PATH.