On Tue, 2021-07-20 at 13:41 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Hello, > Isn't this kind of crying over spilt milk? I also wish we never had > ended up with the buster/bullseye state where both unmerged and > merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs are fully supported. However there is > now a huge number of merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs installations out > there and we cannot make them magically disappear. Undoing > merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs would be very error-prone while afaiui > we have a relatively simple plan to get a clean merged /usr in > bookworm or bookworm +1:
According to the dpkg developer and maintainer Guillem users can still rescue their systems from merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs with the aid of dpkg-fsys-usrunmess(8), see https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#Q:_Does_dpkg_support_merged-.2Fusr-via-aliased-dirs.3F I for one will always use that whenever I (accidentally?) install Debian in the future. All my old installations does not carry this bug. Or is there some easier way to avoid merged-/usr except using --no- merged-usr in debootstrap with new installations as written in https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr?
