Hello:

On 17 Nov 2025 at 17:19, g4sra via Dng wrote:

> ... what Debian decide to do next concerns me.
Yes, I am frequently thinking about that and the consequences it will
(not *may*) have.

And those consequences are not due to chance, serendipity or
coincidence: there is a reason / motive to *everything* that has been
done.

eg:
[quote=fsmithred@Dev1 wrote]
--- snip ---
You can't upgrade to excalibur without merged /usr and you can't
revert the system to un-merged.
--- snip ---
[/quote]

As I have posted elsewhere:
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As it has become quite evident, there has been, is and will be (for
the long run) an astounding amount of 'moolah' behind the [systemd]
putsch into the Linux ecosystem, the main objective being to
infiltrate it, absorb the distribution that is arguably the major
player within it and slowly but steadily proceed to morph it into a
totally different OS, not much different than any other MS OS till it
no longer has any resemblance to Linux as we know it.
---

> ... will probably have no choice but to jump ship as it were.
As much as I hate to admit it, that is another frequent thought that
keeps me awake, so to speak.

> ... the less Debian'ised my systems will be ...
> ... a frozen but security patched Devuan to anything else ...
I already have that (in a way) on my Asus 1000HE which still runs on
Beowulf with a backported kernel.

It is secure in the sense that it does not go on-line and is used to
run my coffee roasting software and not much else.

I decided against upgrading it to Chimaera and then Daedalus
for fear of screwing up something with that software: my morning
espressos are vital to me.

Best,

A.