Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.0 Severity: wishlist Some time ago (ok, a lot of time ago), lots of things were changed in the filesystem (I can particulary recall the gradual phasing-out and elimination of /usr/tmp and /var/adm). Now I think it's time to go on and move some more things.
There are a number of binaries which should go into /bin instead of /sbin or /usr/sbin -- the full argument is at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200106/msg00878.html I have only one thing to add to that list: traceroute should be moved, _not_ to /usr/bin as lots of people claim, but to /bin . It's as necessary and useful as ping to diagnose networking trouble, and /usr might be mounted via NFS through a gateway -- exactly what we want to diagnose. Same for the ipv6 versions of ping and traceroute. For a counter-argument, look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200106/msg00945.html (which says only traceroute belongs to bin and not other tools like ifconfig). To do it, the only needed things would be a small amount of relative symlinks. After some releases (in Debian time, this means some years), most of the symlinks would go away. Much like /usr/tmp and /var/adm. If this is rejected, I still think that at least traceroute should be moved out of /usr (whether it's /bin or /sbin doesn't matter much when the network is down and /usr is NFS-mounted). -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux flower 2.4.7 #1 Sat Jul 21 20:57:24 BRT 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 Versions of packages debian-policy depends on: ii fileutils 4.1-2 GNU file management utilities.
