Bug#216606: dpkg: update-alternatives should be in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:13:08AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > As it is possible for users to do useful things with the
> > > update-alternatives program ( --display etc. ), it should be in
> > > /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin.
> > 
> > I agree. Not having it in $PATH means my shell will take some typing
> > before it autocompletes it, and we all know excess typing is a bad
> > thing ;)
> 
> I certainly have some sympathy with this bug report, but we should be
> careful to check for buggy maintainer scripts that hardcode the location
> of update-alternatives (rather than prepending /usr/sbin:/sbin to $PATH
> and just running it that way) before changing it.

Well, /usr/sbin is already in PATH because dpkg insists on it, so there
really shouldn't be (m)any of those.

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