Hi! On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:21:32 +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.22.4 > Severity: normal > User: de...@kali.org > Usertags: origin-kali
> Kali Linux is a rolling distro based on Debian testing. We go with a > merged-usr layout for a while now, and therefore with patch away the > warning message regarding merged-usr-via-aliased-dirs. We also don't > install dpkg-fsys-usrunmess anymore, since dpkg 1.22.4. > > Please find attached a patch that adds Kali to the list of distros with > a usr-merged layout, along Debian and Ubuntu. Thanks for the patch! Sorry, it seems this has fallen through the cracks. At the time I received this I looked into adding support for some new field in the origins file so that then downstreams would not need to patch dpkg at all, but got stuck with how to name it, and whether to make it a boolean or contain a set of values for things to not warn or similar to not make it so specific, contrast something like: Vendor: Kali ... Show-Usrmerge-Warnings: no versus something like: Vendor: Kali ... Dpkg-Suppress-Warnings: usrmerge or similar. But other ideas welcome, although now that I tried to name the suppress field, it's starting to grow on me. In any case it seemed preferable to try to come up with a generic solution, and assumed that as you probably had already made this change in your distribution source, this was not urgent. But if this is the only delta you have I'd be fine merging something like the patch that you provided for now until a more generic solution is implemented. Thanks, Guillem
