Hi,

your package indi-dsi either Build-Depends on dh-sequence-movetousr
or uses dh_movetousr conditionally to move files from aliased
locations like /sbin, /bin or /lib to the canonical location in /usr.

Eventually, we would like to get rid of this debhelper addon.
Packages should use the canonical paths without any postprocessing.

This means, files are installed directly into /usr.

Please note, that such a change must not be backported to bookworm or
older. If you intend to provide such backports, these changes must be
reverted for those releases. If this means an undue burden on your
workflow our recommendation is to postpone this cleanup.

The motivation for this bug report is, to inform maintainers, that
installing files into the canonical location explicitly, is now the
preferred approach and dh_movetousr is now a deprecated tool.

The goal is, to have dh_movetousr removed after forky is released. We
can revise this plan, if needed. Please keep this timeline in mind
and let us know if this doesn't work for you.

For more information see [1].

If you have further questions, there is an IRC channel named
#debian-usrmerge on OFTC.

Regards,

Michael

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/11/msg00245.html

Control: tags -1 + patch

Looks like the version in experimental does not need
dh-sequence-movetousr anymore as the upstream build system already
installs the udev rules file into the correct location:

set(RULES_INSTALL_DIR "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d")


So I guess the simplest fix would be to upload the version from
experimental to unstable and simply drop dh-sequence-movetousr from
Build-Depends.

Trivial patch is attached.


Regards,
Michael

Hi Thorsten,

wanted to ask if you have seen this patch and if you have further questions?
What's the best route to get this issue resolved?


Regards,
Michael

Hi Michael,

yes, I saw this bug. Unfortunately indi 2.x is still in experimental, so
indi-dsi can not be uploaded to unstable yet.
So from my point of view uploading indi to unstable would help the most ..

   Thorsten

Hi Thorsten

On Thu, 12 Nov 2026 13:49:17 +0100 Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de> wrote:
I can offer to prepare an NMU for the version in unstable and you can
apply the patch from [1] to the version from experimental.

Would that work for you?

Regards,
Michael



[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1122778#10