On 2021-08-25 Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote:
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> As I understand it, the "have usrmerge package patch the dpkg database"
> approach will only work if we ensure that each and every package stop
> using / in bookworm+1.
Hello,
you missed the second part of the "plan". Editing dpkg database syncs
the db with reality. In addition to that we need:
| if dpkg sees the top-level symlink, canonicalizes
| any files referenced in the packages to /usr/{bin,lib,sbin}/$1, with a
| fallback searching for /{bin,lib,sbin}/$1 in the file system, this
| would solve the problem.
A one-time rewrite does not solve the issue. We cannot guarantee that
dpkg never sees a file with /bin/foo because of local or third party
packages.
cu Andreas
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