Bug#1085370: disable unmerged-bin taint (when /bin and /sbin not merged)

[Michael Gold]

Package: systemd
Version: 256.7-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

systemd is tainting the system on start-up:
Oct 09 15:50:08 lucca systemd[1]: System is tainted: unmerged-bin

This is mentioned in a change-log entry for version 256:
 * systemd now generates a new "taint" string "unmerged-bin" for systems
   that have /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/ separate. It's generally
   recommended to make the latter a symlink to the former these days.

However, I'm not aware of any Debian plan to merge these directories.
The "UsrMerge" wiki page still says "there are no plans to do that."
(https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge under "FAQ")

I believe the warning and the "taint" should be disabled until a plan to
merge these directories is implemented within Debian.  Otherwise, it's
adding noise to bug reports (see "Kernel taint flags" below) for no good
reason, and may cause people to break their systems trying to "fix" it.

- Michael


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.11.2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  libacl1            2.3.2-2
ii  libapparmor1       3.1.7-1+b1
ii  libaudit1          1:4.0.1-1
ii  libblkid1          2.40.2-9
ii  libc6              2.40-3
ii  libcap2            1:2.66-5
ii  libmount1          2.40.2-9
ii  libpam0g           1.5.3-7
ii  libseccomp2        2.5.5-1+b1
ii  libselinux1        3.7-3
ii  libssl3t64         3.3.2-1
ii  libsystemd-shared  256.7-1
ii  libsystemd0        256.7-1
ii  mount              2.40.2-9

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  chrony [time-daemon]            4.6.1-1
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.10-4+b1
ii  libzstd1                        1.5.6+dfsg-1
pn  linux-sysctl-defaults           <none>
ii  systemd-cryptsetup              256.7-1

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  libcryptsetup12       2:2.7.5-1
ii  libgcrypt20           1.11.0-6
ii  libidn2-0             2.3.7-2
ii  liblz4-1              1.9.4-3
ii  liblzma5              5.6.2-2
pn  libtss2-rc0t64        <none>
pn  libtss2-tcti-device0  <none>
ii  polkitd               125-2
pn  systemd-boot          <none>
pn  systemd-container     <none>
pn  systemd-homed         <none>
pn  systemd-repart        <none>
pn  systemd-resolved      <none>
pn  systemd-userdbd       <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
ii  dbus-user-session  1.14.10-4+b1
pn  dracut             <none>
ii  initramfs-tools    0.145
pn  libnss-systemd     <none>
ii  libpam-systemd     256.7-1
ii  udev               256.7-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/system.conf changed:
[Manager]
CrashAction=reboot


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