Bug#1050001: Bug#1051371: Post-/usr-merge paths for script interpreters

2023-09-17 Thread Ansgar
Hi, On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 12:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Control: unblock 1051371 by 1050001 > > Ansgar writes: > > > However, there is a proposal by Jackson for an alternative filesystem > > layout based on symlink farms in consideration by the technical > > committee.  This advocates

Bug#1050001: Bug#1051371: Post-/usr-merge paths for script interpreters

2023-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: unblock 1051371 by 1050001 Ansgar writes: > However, there is a proposal by Jackson for an alternative filesystem > layout based on symlink farms in consideration by the technical > committee. This advocates removing compat symlinks in /bin, /sbin over > time[1], thus requiring (c).

Bug#1050001: Bug#1051371: Post-/usr-merge paths for script interpreters

2023-09-13 Thread Ansgar
Control: block 1051371 by 1050001 Hi, On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 20:48 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think the root problem behind this bug is that it is revealing we have > not made a decision about /bin and /usr/bin path references in Debian > after /usr-merge.  Various people, myself included,