Bug#943986: wrong shared linkage position of mv's library dependency

[David Frey]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 08:17:33AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 12:51:41AM +0100, David Frey wrote:
> > cp and mv have a runtime linkage to libacl and libattr which are
> > installed in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/.
> > 
> > This means that a single-user booted system without mounted /usr,
> > is not able to cp or mv files!
> > 
> > Either the dependancy should be dropped, or the libacl and libattr
> > shared libraries should be moved into /lib.
> 
> I don't believe that operating without /usr is a current design goal for
> debian.

In my opinion it should be. It is very useful for system repair and restore.

>From hier(7):

   /bin   This directory contains executable programs which are needed  in
  single user mode and to bring the system up or repair it.

...

   /lib   This  directory should hold those shared libraries that are nec‐
  essary to boot the system and to run the commands  in  the  root
  filesystem.

Keyword is *run* the commands.

Thanks,
  David

reopen 943986

Bug#943986: wrong shared linkage position of mv's library dependency

[David Frey]

Package: coreutils
Version: 8.30-3
Severity: serious

cp and mv have a runtime linkage to libacl and libattr which are
installed in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/.

This means that a single-user booted system without mounted /usr,
is not able to cp or mv files!

Either the dependancy should be dropped, or the libacl and libattr
shared libraries should be moved into /lib.

Thanks,
  David

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=english (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1  2.2.53-4
ii  libattr1 1:2.4.48-4
ii  libc62.28-10
ii  libselinux1  2.8-1+b1

coreutils recommends no packages.

coreutils suggests no packages.

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Mit freundlichen Grüssen,
  David Frey
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