Bug#570998: lintian: Please check that commands in /{usr/,}sbin do not use section 1 manpages
Package: lintian
Followup-For: Bug #570998
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*sigh*
See:
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348864
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253011
There is no consensus.
hier(7) says:
/sbin Like /bin, this directory holds commands needed to boot the system, but which are usually
not executed by normal users.
man-pages(7) says:
1 User commands (Programs)
Those commands that can be executed by the user from within a shell.
8 System management commands
Commands like mount(8), many of which only root can execute.
For me, it is not quite as clear as /sbin should use 8 and /bin 1. In
my case, haproxy is in /sbin because it's mostly useful to root (but a
user could run it as it doesn't really require special privileges).
But it's not like mount, not a system management command, not
executable only by root. I don't want to maintain a deviation from
upstream for such a shallow justification.
IMO, this should be moved to pedantic.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental-debug'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.32.51.20190707-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-9.2
ii diffstat 1.62-1
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii file 1:5.35-4
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9
ii gpg 2.2.17-2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libio-async-perl 0.74-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4
ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.004004-1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.28.1-6
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.32.51.20190707-1
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1
- -- no debconf information
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