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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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