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Re: possible mass-filing of bugs: many shared library packages contain binaries in usr/bin



On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:53:48PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> immo vero scripsit:
> 
> > <list of packages>
> > 
> > The problem is that we don't have /libexec in Debian GNU/Linux (we do
> > in GNU/Hurd). I really think that's a bug and those binaries in these
> > library packages probably belong in /libexec.
> 
> No, most of them are just misplaced binary files.
> Having a /libexec is not related at all to the problem described here.

Of course it is, if they are only called by libraries (or other
binaries), they should be in /libexec instead of /bin. And I'm not
sure it's wrong to ship them in a library packages then.

Jeroen Dekkers
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