Re: RFC: Moving gpg to /bin?

To: Debian GnuPG-Maintainers <pkg-gnupg-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Moving gpg to /bin?
From: Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:06:53 +0200
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Posting to debian-devel too. Please comment.

Am Donnerstag, den 03.09.2009, 11:58 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert:

> I'm thinking about moving gpg to /bin to solve bugs #386980 and #477671.
> But this might break scripts and executables, which hardcoded gpg (e.g.
> dput). So what to do? Create a symlink
> 
> /usr/bin/gpg -> /bin/gpg
> 
> as a workaround and file bugs against all packages, which hard-coded the
> path? Or ship the symlink for the next two releases?
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/386980
> http://bugs.debian.org/477671

Regards, Daniel

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