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

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: close -1

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:41:55 +0000 Michael Gold <michael at bitplane.org>
wrote:
> 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.

They cannot be disabled, there are no options to do so, feel free to
send a patch upstream to implement such a feature if you want to do so