From: hwansing@mailbox.org 
  
 Hi, 
  
 Cyril Brulebois  wrote (Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:30:57 +0200): 
 > Holger Wansing  (2025-10-19): 
 > > I managed to successfully do these changins in 31 d-i packages, I fail 
 > > for the last 3 ones: 
 > > hw-detect 
 > > s390-dasd 
 > > s390-zfcp 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > While the s390 packages are not on the top of my to-worry-about list 
 > > (are they used at all ???), I would like to have hw-detect migrated, but 
 > > I fail. It seems to follow a different concept, which I don't understand. 
 > 
 > Do you have a branch somewhere? Or some error messages? 
  
 Yes, you got me. My ask-for-help was not very constructive. 
 Not much information, no error messages. 
  
 I made several attempts, and at the end I was just missing motivation, 
 but pushed that help message nevertheless. 
  
 Sorry for this. 
  
  
  
 So I will add a summary here: 
  
 First attempt was to simply change all hardcoded paths I could find in 
 ./debian from bin|lib to usr/bin|usr/lib. 
 This approach has worked fine for 98% of the d-i packages I touched before 
 in this migration. 
 It is at 
 https://salsa.debian.org/holgerw/hw-detect-usrmerge-ready 
 However, this doesn't look promissing, to be honest, since not all 
 included binary packages are involved here (only ethdetect and and 
 hw-detect get changings in this attempt). 
 And the result is, that /usr/bin does not contain any files in the 
 generated udebs, only empty directory. 
  
  
  
 So I made a more global attempt, adding *.install files for all 
 binary packages, to have the possibility, to control install paths 
 for all files for all binary packages. 
 This is at 
 https://salsa.debian.org/holgerw/hw-detect-usrmerge-2 
 But this build fails with 
 -----------snip--------------------- 
 dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for) "check-missing-firmware" 
 (tried in ., debian/tmp) 
  
 dh_install: warning: hw-detect missing files: check-missing-firmware 
 dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for) "hotplug-pcmcia" (tried 
 in 
 ., debian/tmp) 
  
 dh_install: warning: hw-detect missing files: hotplug-pcmcia 
 dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for) "hw-detect" (tried in ., 
 debian/tmp) 
  
 dh_install: warning: hw-detect missing files: hw-detect 
 dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for) "sysfs-update-devnames" 
 (tried in ., debian/tmp) 
  
 dh_install: warning: hw-detect missing files: sysfs-update-devnames 
 dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for) "udev" (tried in ., 
 debian/tmp) 
  
 dh_install: warning: hw-detect missing files: udev 
 dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for) "ethdetect" (tried in ., 
 debian/tmp) 
  
 dh_install: warning: ethdetect missing files: ethdetect 
 dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for) "disk-detect" (tried 
 in ., 
 debian/tmp) 
  
 dh_install: warning: disk-detect missing files: disk-detect 
 dh_install: warning: Cannot find (any matches for) "driver-injection-disk" 
 (tried in ., debian/tmp) 
  
 dh_install: warning: driver-injection-disk-detect missing files: 
 driver-injection-disk 
 dh_install: error: missing files, aborting 
 make: *** [debian/rules:3: binary] Fehler 25 
 --------------snap---------------- 
  
  
 I had some more sub-steps between these two, but they were even less 
 senseful. 
 So I leave them out here. 
  
  
 At the end, it seems that hw-detect follows a completely different concept 
 than all the other d-i packages I touched in this migration, and I doubt, 
 if this can be correct (or good) ? 
  
  
 Holger 
  
  
  
  
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