On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 at 18:06, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > On the other, related topic, I've also been somewhat confused in this > discussion why it seems like there's a long-term goal to not have any > Debian package ship the /bin and /lib symlinks. I would assume we would > keep those symlinks forever, and thus will always be shipping them in a > package from now on (once we get to a place where it's safe to ship them > in a package). In the long term, that seems like the most efficient way > to prevent them from being removed, and also just seems obviously correct > semantically.
In the long term, there are two camps: those who would like to ship everything as package content (ie: top level symlinks in data.tar of some package, probably base-files) and those who would like packages to exclusively ship files under the vendor trees (/usr and optionally /etc) and let image builders set up required mount points, symlinks, and so on. To be clear, despite being in the latter group, I am absolutely fine with going with the first option for now to finish the transition, if it's the best and easiest way to do so, and eventually revisit it later. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
