• Bug#1109784: release-notes: document that "unmerged-bin" taint is harml

    From David Bremner@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 23 21:30:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.doc

    Package: release-notes
    Severity: normal

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    Unfortunately the name "unmerged-bin" makes users think this has something to do with usrmerge. It does not, but is rather about a suggestion from systemd upstream that /sbin and /bin be merged.

    There are more details at

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085370

    but the short version is that this "taint" should be ignored in Debian
    as having separate /bin and /sbin is not a bug [1].

    [1]: In fact such a configuration could reasonably be considered
    unsupported based on FHS, and on the face we do have some collisions
    that would turn into file conflicts. Of course all of that is subject
    to change in the future.






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