unmerged-usr
The named file is being installed in a legacy location.
Many competing distributions install this file under /usr.
Debian would like to do the same, but the best way to get there is
presently unclear.
Please coordinate with the release team before you change this path to the new location. There is a growing body of evidence that uncoordinated action by individual package maintainers or teams may not be the best path forward.
Debian's Technical Committee voted on February 1, 2021 that the
bookworm release should support only the merged-usr root
filesystem layout, thus dropping support for the non-merged-usr layout.
For more information please consult:
- https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
- https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr
- Bug#978636
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/11/#00232
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/12/#00386
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00001.html
- https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=236
- https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2019/228/Debian-usr-Merge
- https://lwn.net/Articles/773342/
- https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check files/hierarchy/merged-usr.
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