Control: severity -1 serious On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 at 19:40:10 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > If sharutils 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 bash > is recorded in the binary as /usr/bin/bash. > > This can be seen on the reproducible-builds.org infra: > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/diffoscope-results/sharutils.html > (search for "/usr/bin/bash" to see the difference I'm concerned about).
This will be a practical problem as soon as Debian starts using merged-/usr on official buildds, and the Debian technical committee resolution https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994388#110 recommends treating this class of bug as release-critical for Debian 12, so I'm raising the severity of this bug. Please upload a fixed package before the Debian 12 freeze. I provided a patch in 2021 which I hope will solve this. Thanks, smcv
