Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
> > I am a newcommer to this particular bit of policy, but it occurs to me that
> > the answer is to add links to the original commands to conform to
> > Debian standards while leaving the upstream commands intact.
>
> That would horribly clutter the bin directories. I think the approach
> with a /usr/share/$packagename/bin/ that contains the old names as
> links, and can be added to PATH, is the best we can do for supporting
> scripts that assume extensions.
That would mean a possibly overlong PATH. A single place for those
scripts would be better.
Mike
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