Hi,

> your package installs the filenames `arc_summary` and `arcstat` and `zfs` and 
> `zilstat` and `zpool` and `zvol_wait` to both bin and sbin as opposed to just 
> one of those locations.

Yes, this is intended. These files were first installed to sbin, later moved to 
bin. Symlinks are thus created to provide compatibility to user scripts.

> This causes a problem on a filesystem layout where bin and sbin are merged 
> into a single real directory, typically by sbin being a symlink to bin. Such 
> a filesystem layout has become standard on some distributions now, and others 
> are moving onto in their next releases.

UsrMerge [1] says Debian has no plan to merge bin and sbin. Nonetheless we do 
plan to remove the symlinks at certain version after the move.

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge

Thanks,
Shengqi Chen

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