Hi Simon,
Simon McVittie wrote:
> If backuppc is built on a merged-/usr system (as created by new installations
> of Debian >= 10, debootstrap --merged-usr, or installing the usrmerge
> package into an existing installation), the path to ping6 is recorded in the
> binary as /usr/bin/ping6.
*sigh* Thanks for the bug report.
> Technical Committee resolution #978636 mandates heading towards a
> transition to merged-/usr,
Unfortunately, yes. :-( IMHO that whole usrmerge thing is completely
unnecessary and harmful for Debian — as can be seen in this and
hundreds of other bug reports.
> From 7a89355ff53e827de8f3a5b91f7ebb79d47ad1c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org>
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 18:26:59 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] d/rules: Specify canonical path to ping6
Thanks for the patch.
Regards, Axel
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