Marco d'Itri, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 12:04:07 +0100, wrote: > On Nov 13, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > > Thus I think that debootstrap should revert to unmerged /usr until > > dpkg-shlibdeps has been fixed. Fixing is non-trivial and likely requires > > an archive rebuild on several architectures. > Not really: dpkg-shlibdeps just needs to be fixed to search for > libraries in $directory and /usr/$directory, and then everything will > work again as usual.
Then that should be fixed before enabling "merged-usr by default". > And yes, hacks like this one are a side effect of maintaining support > for non-merged systems. Rather, a side effect of taking into account the whole lot of existing packages, whose file list show libraries either in /lib or /usr/lib. Samuel
