On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:46:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >> This means that any Debian package which can't cope with having > >> /usr a symlink to / breaks policy and needs to be corrected, so > >> I guess I have already answered one of my previous questions > >> to Marcus. > > > >Mmmmh. Reading a standard, I can't find this. Why does it "breaks policy"? > >The standard says nothing about /bin and /usr/bin carrying the same file, > >(or the same for /lib). This seems to be unspecified. > > >From memory, the Debian policy requires programs to adhere to the > FSSTND - hence if a program won't work with FSSTND, it also breaks > Debian policy. Please correct me if I am wrong though.
Yes, this I know. However, does the standard really require it that /usr can be a symlink to / ? This is what I meant with my question. I think the standard does not say anything about this, from what I read. It does nowhere say, for example, "you must not have /bin/foo and /usr/bin/foo being something different". It does also not say the opposite. Mmmh. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
