your recent upload of tor to trixie-backports / aliased files

Michael Biebl <[email protected]> Sat, 3 Jan 2026 16:38:44 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Peter,

you recently made an upload of tor to trixie-backports:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1703357/accepted-tor-04821-1bpo131-source-amd64-all-into-stable-backports/


The relevant part is
* Keep systemd files in /lib (as opposed to /usr/lib)


In trixie (that includes trixie-backports) all files *must* be installed 
into /usr. Moving the files back to the aliased location is a policy 
violation from trixie onwards (and can lead to file loss).

For bookworm/bookworm-backports, the file move moratorium was still in 
place, which means, if your package in trixie shipped files in /bin, 
/sbin or /lib and you make a bookworm-backport, moving the files back / 
is correct.

This means, you need to differentiate between bookworm-backports and 
trixie-backports.


CCed the backports mailing list to raise awareness of this issue.


Regards,
Michael

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