>    Il giorno lun 27 nov 2023 alle ore 19:29 Svante Signell
>    <svante.signell@???> ha scritto:

>      On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 02:24 +0100, Lorenz via Dng wrote:
>      > >

>      >
>      > Let me try to better explain this:
>      > Mitigation M2 in https://subdivi.de/~helmut/dep17.html
>      > means that *every deb package* is about to ship files directly in
>      > /usr/bin instead of /bin, or directly in /usr/lib instead of /lib and
>      > so on.. An unmerged system will end up *without* /bin/sh,
>      > /sbin/init, /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (on amd64) just to make few
>      > relevant examples. At the end of the process (expected around March
>      > 2024) an unmerged system will have /bin, /lib, /sbin directories
>      > empty: but I doubt the system will be able to perform upgrades to
>      > that point. This move is *mandatory* for every Debian package, so
>      > until some derivative starts to support unmerged layout by forking
>      > 500/1000 packages (or by some other means) the unmerged layout will
>      > be broken.

>      Are you really sure about this? I've seen no reports so far about a
>      system being broken by an upgrade. I'll try this on a small qemu image
>      when time permits.

>    It's not broken *now* but it will be soon: the point of printing the
>    message
>    was exactly to avoid breaking systems, so the message is now, the compete
>    breakage will be no later than spring 2024. but I don't guarantee that it