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

[Michael Gold]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 17:51:21 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> 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

An option doesn't seem like the right way to handle this.  It would
complicate configuration parsing and documentation for little benefit,
and then we'd still need the package to ship a Debian-specific drop-in
or something like that.

The warning itself has no obvious benefit to users, given that almost
everyone seeing it will be using a distribution and thus be un-able to
fix it (without breaking their package managers).  This makes me think
that the feature exists mostly to pressure distributors, and that an
up-stream discussion is not likely to be productive.

I conclude that it's Debian that needs to make the decision: either
merge the directories as the systemd developers want, or carry a patch
to disable the warning.  Having a Debian package warn that the system
follows the Debian-mandated layout is not reasonable.

If you still don't agree with patching systemd, I guess this will need
to be reported against the debian-policy package.  I'll do that if you
don't want to.

-- Michael
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