+1.

we should try to stay as close to our upstream (Ubuntu) as possible and
try not to introduce any unnecessary differences.

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 23:51 -0500, Tim Spriggs wrote:
> Jason Upton wrote:
> > So I have been looking through the almost 15k lines of diffs from the
> > elatte package for pciutils trying to get the latest Ubuntu version
> > ready (which is based on 2.2.4 version).  I have resolved all of the
> > diffs except one by noticing that many files were updated to 2.2.0
> > even though the orig/changelog was left at 2.1.11.
> >
> > There is one diff that is bugging me though - for some reason, the
> > lspci and setpci commands are placed in "/usr/sbin" in the elatte
> > package but both Debian and Ubuntu upstream has them in "/usr/bin".  I
> > checked my local Debian box to make sure and it has them in
> > "/usr/bin".
> >
> > Is there a reason to move these commands (lspci and setpci) that is
> > Nexenta specific?  There are capabilities that do not require root, so
> > it makes more sense to me to leave them in "/usr/bin" instead of
> > "/usr/sbin".
> >
> > Thanks for any insight/comments/etc,
> > Jason
> >   
> Hey Jason,
> 
> I vote to follow the /usr/bin scheme unless it conflicts with other 
> commands somehow. Even if it does, I think the package should divert 
> those other commands instead of moving things to sbin. I haven't looked 
> at it though so I may be missing an important detail...
> 
> Thanks,
> -Tim
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