On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 04:18:30PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote: > In bug #292759 the maintainer of gettext-base claims, that it is also > ok to install shell script sniplets, which are not executable on > itself into /usr/bin/ > > This is not a bug. > > The file gettext.sh is meant to be sourced by shell scripts in this way: > > . gettext.sh i'd argue the file is improperly placed. if the file is sourced and not directly executed, and there's no reason why an average user or admin of the system would need to execute it as "gettext.sh", it should stay out of /usr/bin, and go in /usr/share/gettext-base/scripts or something more appropriate like that. looking at the script snippet in question, all it does is set a couple functions/variables, so it certainly should not be in /usr/bin. hell, it's not even executable. sean --
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