Bug#974677: bin-sbin-mismatch: false positive when using variables

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Roland,

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:33 AM Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> wrote:
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> - they have nothing to do with sbin, as you can see in the output above

Yes, the tag became a misnomer when we simplified the directory check
to cover a missing '/usr' component, as well. The intent was to cover
usr-bin-merge issues also, which relate directly to the spirit of the
tag (although not to the name).

> - I use variables in these scripts, which isn't noticed by lintian

That is a far bigger and potentially insurmountable issue. The
functionality of the tag was already impaired by gcc's SHF_MERGE
feature. The tag should probably be retired.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner