Bug#218530: Suboptimal conditional rune for initscripts

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Mark Baker writes ("Re: Bug#218530: Suboptimal conditional rune for initscripts"):
> I think it's debatable whether searching the path for a command in an 
> init script is a good thing, but if we don't search the path for the 
> test we shouldn't do it when we actually execute the command, so the 
> code you quote is wrong either way.

Quite so.

I'm convinced that searching the path is the right answer, because it
allows the sysadmin to replace binaries by modifying the path or
putting them in /usr/local, without having to use dpkg-divert (and, if
they want different commands at different times, without having to do
weird hacks with environment variables or anything ...)

Ian.