tags 483171 + wontfix quit On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:40:28AM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote: > The new package removed the /commands directory and moved all the commands > to /usr/bin. This is wrong for a number of reasons: > > - This breaks compatibility with the stock daemontools from djb > > - Root is supposed to run commands with absolute paths, so any root crontab > (or script) would have depended on, for example, tai64n being in /commands; > this change would break all these important local scripts > > These would have been worked around if there is a compatibility symlink > /commands pointing to /usr/bin
Hi Ambrose, while I generally agree, I'm sorry to say that this will not happen. Inlcuding these symlinks in the daemontools package would be a serious bug, as the Debian policy, which adheres to the FHS, doesn't allow packages to create the toplevel directory /commands/. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
