David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > But this does follow the (snipped) comment 'the "/usr Merge" that > might hit a fan someday'. For those *not* preparing packages for > Debian and/or other distributions, can anyone express a downside > to usr-merge, ie for typical "user/consumers".
For me the biggest downside was that "dpkg -S", "dlocate" and "apt-file search" and the web-equivalent stopped working reliably, because the final path in the filesystem is no longer the same as it is in the package. It also broke some internal CI/CD where the wrong paths were used when the CD chroot was built with usr-merge active but the deployment target was not usr-merged. The same has happened for the Debian buildds. And it also broke some 3rd party vendor packages which had the same directory in /lib and /usr/lib, but with different contents. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
