Debian Technical Committee News Today

Debian 12 had aimed to have a merged '/usr' file-system layout similar to other Linux distributions, but The Debian Technical Committee earlier this year decided to impose a merged-/usr file movement moratorium

The Debian Technical Committee has announced a new moratorium on moving files from the root into /usr, a necessary part of its UsrMerge project. Many distributions have made this change, but Debian has had more difficulties than most; LWN last looked at this project one year ago.

The Debian Technical Committee has voted to reinstate the merged-/usr file movement moratorium.