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Re: Files in /usr/sbin



On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:10:18PM +0100, martin@walnut.methody.org wrote:

> I have a package which installs a programme in /usr/sbin but lintian gives
> the following warning on the package:
> W: libpam-mount: file-in-unusual-dir usr/sbin

> There are plenty of other Debian packages which put a file in /usr/sbin and
> lintian doesn't complain about them; why does it do this for my package?

The problem is that you don't have a file *in* /usr/sbin, you have a
file *called* /usr/sbin: the argument on the end of that warning is the
full path of the file generating the warning...

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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