Bug#1064785: brltty: installs same filename to both bin and sbin

[cacin at allfreemail.net]

Source: brltty
Followup-For: Bug #1064785

> I haven't checked yet, but are these two versions of file:brltty 
> actually the same?

Yes, /sbin/brltty is a symlink to /bin/brltty

> But in Debian we're not there yet.

You are correct, but it is a direction that is being explored right now,
and debootstrap allows testing such a filesystem layout to find out what
would break.

Fedora did a nice writeup on this
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin

> Suggesting a move from /bin to /usr/bin is not without danger

That is true, and that's part of the usrmerge efforts and packages will
hopefully move the affected files in time for debian trixie release.

However, merging bin and sbin is not part of the current usrmerge, it is
something that could be called usrmerge2.0 or sbinmerge or something
else.

The reason why the file loss in usrmerge happens is exactly because the
filesystem layout was merged *before* packages moved their files to the
new canonical locations. It is therefore preferable to get rid of file
conflicts as a result of the same file being in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
before bin and sbin are merged, and that is why this bug was filed.