In fact I have binary in /usr/sbin in the current version, the new version will just switch to /usr/bin.
Thank You for your response. On 3 February 2014 14:47, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez < [email protected]> wrote: > On 3 February 2014 14:34, Dariusz Dwornikowski > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am working on read-edid package which ships two binaries: get-edid and > > parse-edid. In current Debian package get-edid is installed into > /usr/sbin > > and parse-edid to /usr/bin. Upstream Author changed build system from > plain > > makefiles to cmake, and also in the new version (3.0.0) both binaries > > install into /usr/bin. > > > > What should be done in such a situation? Should I follow Author's > intentions > > or patch CMakeLists.txt (I patch it anyway to set proper man paths). > > > > What about linking? so you have the binary in both /usr/bin and > /usr/sbin. But you should assure this doesn't conflict with FHS or > other Debian standar. > > Anyway, I don't see any problem in changing the path. I guess users > are using $PATH to invoke the program, or `which' in a shell script. > -- > Arturo Borrero González > -- Pozdrawiam, Dariusz Dwornikowski, Assistant Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology www.cs.put.poznan.pl/ddwornikowski/ room 2.7.2 BTiCW | tel. +48 61 665 29 41
