Re: Packaging mmh (fork of nmh)
* Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>, 2016-04-10, 15:49:
nmh installs it's binaries (~20) into /usr/bin/nmh.
Actually it installs to /usr/bin/mh, ...
Now I try to do the same, and install mmh's binaries into
/usr/bin/mmh, but Lintian complain about FHS violation. The only
allowed subdir of /usr/bin is /usr/bin/mh.
So nmh is not following FHS either.
...which is permitted by FHS.
Installing mmh into /usr/bin/mh would be impolite to `nmh', since `mh'
is historical name, like `vi'.
Are nmh and mmh intended to be co-installable? I presume that you want
one or the other, so making them conflict like MTAs would make sense.
Conveniently, nmh already has Conflicts+Replaces+Provides for virtual
package "mh". It would make sense to add the same C+R+P to mmh.
--
Jakub Wilk
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