On 2026-05-16, Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 15:22:29 -0000, CGS wrote: >> I upgraded 83 packages in Trixie just now (a version change apparently) and >> the >> message in the subject line appeared in the standard output. > > Good grief. I just rebooted for Linux security upgrades the other day! > >> What's canonicalization? > > In general, it means transforming something into its most official form. > Like, taking a message that's full of abbreviations and changing each > of those abbreviations into its actual word/phrase.
Thank you. > If your / directory was actually owned by someone other than root, then > I'd say it's a good thing that it got fixed. > I'm on a vanilla Trixie and have never touched /, so I'm baffled.

