On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 02:06:45AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/28/2013 06:28 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > Please rename /sbin/rc to something else. We've had (unrelated) > > /usr/bin/rc in Debian for at least 18 years. > > Outch! This bites hard. Maybe you being the maintainer of the "rc" > package is why you saw this immediately! :) > > Though that's annoying, because upstream must extensively uses "rc". All > OpenRC commands are in fact using /sbin/rc. For example, /bin/rc-status > (which shows what is a symlink to /bin/rc, and then /sbin/rc finds out > that it has been called by using /bin/rc-status, so it prints the status.
Is there much chance of convincing upstream to consider a migration to another binary name, perhaps "openrc"? If it's a difficult and complex change it would be best if it was performed upstream I think. Although it took Debian to notice the clash, the clash may be a problem for others as well. FWIW /usr/bin/rc is an interesting shell and worth a look for those who aren't already familiar with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131111075554.gb19...@bryant.redmars.org
