Re: Bug#272603: debian-policy: no filename suffixes in bin directories
"Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> writes:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG writes:
>
> > Are there any packages which are actually doing this?
>
> In sid, at least the following (this is just on my laptop), and I only
> looked for sh, pl and py suffixes:
>
> docbook-dsssl: /usr/bin/collateindex.pl
> gettext-base: /usr/bin/gettext.sh
> gs-common: /usr/bin/fixmswrd.pl
> gs-common: /usr/bin/lprsetup.sh
> gs-common: /usr/bin/pv.sh
> gs-common: /usr/bin/unix-lpr.sh
> wmaker: /usr/bin/wkdemenu.pl
So my next question is that we can just ask people to change these
directly; maybe no policy statement is necessary.
The reason I say that is because maybe there is some case where the
extension is actually important. I can't think of one, but once you
create a rule, you get kind of stuck when the exceptional case
arises. So I always prefer to create rules only when actually
necessary to help solve problems.
Thomas
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