Hi,

your package syncthing 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

Please find attached a patch which implements this change.

Regards,
Michael

Hi Simon, hi Tobias,


in the interest of moving this issue along, I'm CCing you directly since
you made the last uploads.
Is there anything I can do to have this patch applied?
I can offer to NMU, propose a MR via salsa, just let me know.


Regards,
Michael

Feel free to do a team-upload or NMU upload!  Looks good to me.

/Simon

Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:

Hi Simon,

thanks for your reply!
I'm not a member of go-team, so I can't really make a team upload.
I can do an NMU though.
Should I submit a MR with the changes or is the debdiff suficient?

Regards,
Michael



Am 11.11.26 um 22:01 schrieb Simon Josefsson:

I've uploaded the changes to DELAYED/7 as NMU,
debdiff is attached.

Please let me know if an MR via salsa would be appreciated as well.

Michael

Am 11.11.26 um 22:08 schrieb Michael Biebl:

I don't have cycles to look at syncthing right now, and I'm not familiar
with the package to speak authoratively anyway, but FWIW you have my
support to do NMU.  No need to go through DELAYED either, IMHO.  The
package looks a bit abandonded to me.

/Simon

Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:

11.11.2026 22:31:42 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>:

Hi Micheal,

thanks for your work. I agree with Simon, please move the package out of DELAYED and upload straight away. An MR on salsa would be much appreciated, but the debdiff works as well.

Regards,
Tobias

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
syncthing, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1122780@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (supplier of updated syncthing package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:21:05 +0100
Source: syncthing
Architecture: source
Version: 1.29.5~ds1-5.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Closes: 1122780
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Thank you both for your replies.

I've (re-)uploaded the NMU without delay and created a MR at

https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/syncthing/-/merge_requests/8


Regards,
Michael

Thank you!  I've set it to auto-merge.  If you have the git tag for the
upload, feel free to push it into the repository.

/Simon

tor 2026-11-12 klockan 22:41 +0100 skrev Michael Biebl:

Am 12.11.26 um 22:50 schrieb Simon Josefsson:
I've pushed the tag to my fork.

Regards,
Michael

Thank you!  I pushed the tag and merged the MR now.

/Simon

tor 2026-11-12 klockan 22:55 +0100 skrev Michael Biebl: