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Re: usrmerge in bookworm

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On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 11:06:56AM +0200, Steve Keller wrote:
>     $ dpkg -S $(type -p sh)
>     dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/sh
> 
> And I don't see a comfortable way around this.

Yeah, usrmerge is a bit wonky in these early stages.  Part of the reason
for this is that it's not *mandatory*, not really.  There are still
Debian systems -- important ones, which run the internal infrastructure
of Debian itself -- that aren't using it.

So, in order to continue to accomodate the non-merged systems, packages
that provide certain well-known legacy pathnames like /bin/ls must
continue to do so.  They can't move to providing /usr/bin/ls because
that may break things on non-merged systems.

Corner cases like the one you showed are going to remain in place for
many years.

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usrmerge in bookworm Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2023-10-06 11:30 +0200
  Re: usrmerge in bookworm Marco <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-06 11:50 +0200
    Re: usrmerge in bookworm Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2023-10-06 15:50 +0200
  Re: usrmerge in bookworm Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-06 13:20 +0200
    Re: usrmerge in bookworm Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2023-10-06 16:50 +0200
      Re: usrmerge in bookworm Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-10-07 00:40 +0200
        Re: usrmerge in bookworm Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2023-10-07 09:10 +0200
          Re: usrmerge in bookworm Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-10-07 22:30 +0200

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