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The addition of the "/usr merge" feature has been something of longstanding mess in the Debian world. It seems like a relatively innocuous change, which is in keeping with the practice of most other distributions at this point; it effectively eliminates the top-level /bin, /sbin, and /lib* directories in order to move their contents to the corresponding locations under /usr. But ever since we first covered the feature introduction for Debian—more than six years ago—it has a been a recurring series of headaches within that community. Recent events have seemingly simply prolonge...