block 216606 by 510937 510938 510939 510941 510942 510943 510944 510946 510947
thanks
Hi!
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 08:13:08 -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:37:39AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:54:38PM +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> > > As it is possible for users to do useful things with the
> > > update-alternatives program ( --display etc. ), it should be in
> > > /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin.
> >
> > I agree. Not having it in $PATH means my shell will take some typing
> > before it autocompletes it, and we all know excess typing is a bad
> > thing ;)
>
> I certainly have some sympathy with this bug report, but we should be
> careful to check for buggy maintainer scripts that hardcode the location
> of update-alternatives (rather than prepending /usr/sbin:/sbin to $PATH
> and just running it that way) before changing it.
I've filed now bugs for all the stuff I found through lintian [0], and
grepping under {,/usr}/{,s}bin/.
regards,
guillem
[0] <http://lintian.debian.org/tags/command-with-path-in-maintainer-script.html>
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