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# `aliased-location`

This package installs files into an aliased location and should not be doing so.

Since Debian Trixie, the `base-files` package sets up symbolic links such as `/bin` pointing to `usr/bin`. Installing files in `/bin` directly thus triggers undefined behaviour in `dpkg`.

Packages must no longer install files into such locations and must install them to the corresponding location under `usr/` instead.

Severity: | `error`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Binaries (Section 10.1) in the Debian Policy Manual

- Bug#1074014

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag