I would argue vdev belongs in / rather than /usr because it is likely to
be necessary to mount filesystems and such.

The split is somewhat arbitrary these days but historically things needed
during the boot process and to repair the system have gone in / while less
essential bits have gone into /usr

People do still partition that way sometimes so it's a good idea not to
break the system for them :)

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 14:14 Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???>
wrote:

> aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> writes:
> > By default, PSTAT (a dependency of VDEV) is installed in "/usr/local",
> > just as VDEV.
> >
> > As Daniel Raurich explained in another thread:
> >
> > [...] the "/usr/local" directory is for non-packaged local stuff [...]
> >
> > So, should i change this configuration for those packages, or should i
> > skip debhelper's "dh_usrlocal" script adding:
> >

> > binary:
> >     dh binary --before dh_usrlocal
> >     dh binary --after dh_usrlocal

> >
> > to debian/rules?
>
> To which degree this actually makes a difference would be a good
> question but the convention-so-far has been that distribution provided
> stuff goes into / or /usr and that /usr/local can be used as seen fit by
> whoever controls/ administrates a particular installation. If the
> packaged vdev is supposed to become an integral part of the OS/
> distribution, it should honour the existing convention unless there's a
> good reason for not doing this.
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