Bug#686143: FHS requirements on "essential" binaries cannot be well defined at distro level

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Your original problem, that there are packages with binaries in /bin that
> use libraries in /usr/lib, is unsolved, but is also unaddressable within
> Debian in the form of a bug against general.  This isn't a problem with
> your methodology so much as a problem with Debian, but realistically bugs
> against general almost never result in any concrete action.

In theory an appropriate resolution would be:

 1) an interested person writes a script to detect the problem (already
    done, I think) and runs it against packages in the lintian lab
    (not done?)

 2) after a quick discussion about appropriate severity, bugs are filed
    against the affected packages

 3) the bug against "general" is marked as blocked by those bugs and
    used to track work writing e.g. a lintian check (well, that wouldn't
    work here --- maybe a piuparts check or something?) to make sure
    the problem doesn't regress in the future.

Of course that's only theory.

My two cents,
Jonathan