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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.

This moratorium lasts until we vote to repeal it. We expect to do
that during the trixie development cycle, and sooner rather than
later. We will continue to facilitate efforts to resolve the
remaining issues that stand in the way of safely repealing the
moratorium.

Trixie is the codename
for Debian 13, the upcoming major release cycle.