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Re: renamings to remove extensions



On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:05:29AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:

> > I do agree that if everyone but Debian expects foo to be called as
> > foo.pl, there is a bug in Debian.

> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-send
> /command/supervise

> These are what are expected when you use qmail and daemontools the DJB
> way. 

>   http://cr.yp.to/unix.html

> We solve the first one with /var/qmail/bin being a symlink to /usr/sbin.
> We don't solve the latter one at all.

> Debian bug, or DJB bug?

DJB bug.  (And a symlink doesn't make the software FHS-compliant.)

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