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Re: Bug#272603: debian-policy: no filename suffixes in bin directories



Hello

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:36:05AM +0200, Christian Leimer wrote:
> Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> > 
> I use sarge and there are also some .bin, .kss, .emac21, .lbl, .x11
> and .real files around.

At least .bin and .real are normally used for alternatives mechanism or
similar. It can also be a debian script wrapper around the real program
to fix something that should exist in Debian, like set up environment that
the program need.

Regards,

// Ola

> Bye chris.
> 
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