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Bug#1020792: tech-ctte: Halt merged-/usr transition until dpkg filesystem damage bugs are fixed



Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> writes:

> That does not clearly say that a *pair* of packages, where one installs
> files in /path and the other one installs files in /usr/path, is not 
> allowed.  I'm guessing it was the *intent*, but the example, at least,
> makes it sound like it's only talking about within a single package.

Thanks, good catch.  We've been dealing with this elsewhere as the other
replies pointed out, but we should update the wording in Policy to make
this explicit.

I'll open a separate bug for that.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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