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[tor-bugs] #34115 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: review the impact of usrmerge
#34115: review the impact of usrmerge
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Reporter: anarcat | Owner: anarcat
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: High | Milestone:
Component: Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin | Version:
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Severity: Major | Keywords:
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Debian buster shipped with a "merged `/usr`", which means that `/bin`,
`/lib` and `/sbin` are now symlinks to their counterparts in `/usr`. There
are concerns that this behavior is buggy and triggers problems in all
sorts of places. In particular, the `dpkg` maintainers are quite unhappy
about the change and do not support it as a configuration:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr
... which is disturbing, considering the `dpkg` is such a core component
of a Debian system.
That wiki page provides a hackish script to "migrate away" from usrmerge
but no one, as far as I know, has done that in production. It definitely
looks nasty.
We should consider whether:
1. this is a real problem
2. which machines have usrmerge
3. whether new machines should have it
4. whether we need to fix old machines
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