On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 03:31:04PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I don't think that is true. The (single!) change in usrmerge v38 was that > it no longer implements the undocumented opt-out mechanism involving > /etc/unsupported-skip-usrmerge-conversion, therefore any system with > usrmerge (>= 38~) or usr-is-merged (>= 38~) is always going to be > /usr-merged.
How could I have missed this! Sorry. > Would the suggested versioned dependency on base-files offer the same? Yes. base-files (>= 13.3~) will directly ship the aliasing links in its data.tar and its preinst will fail if any of these links actually is a real directory (rather than being a symlink or absent both of which mean that after unpack there'll be a symlink). I looked for other cases where there would be a versioned dependency on usr-is-merged and to my surprise dbus was literally the only one. So given that we do not want to duplicate the conflicts into base-files and that dbus actually is the only package wanting to express this, I am now convinced that the originally proposed solution of adding the base-files alternative actually is a good solution for the problem at hand. Helmut
