On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 08:39 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > So let me summarize Debian's "official" position as I understand it: we > > do *NOT* care how dpkg's recommendations will break derivative > > installations at all; if systems become unbootable, cause data loss, > > ... now or in the future that is explicitly fine. > > This is also unhelpful (and incorrect).
No, it is correct. We allow boot-critical parts to refer to files using either the path in / or /usr; on systems following the recommendations from dpkg's warning this might result in non-booting systems. That is what we sign up to accept by having the warning in dpkg. Ansgar