Bug#14025: marked as done (nn is compiled to usr /usr/bin/inews rather than PATH)
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From: sysadmin@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Ian Jackson)
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X-Debian-CC: mjh@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Mark Harrison)
Subject: nn is compiled to usr /usr/bin/inews rather than PATH
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Package: nn
Version: 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01
Mark Harrison, one of my users, points out that nn is compiled to call
/usr/bin/inews by its absolute pathname, rather than searching the
PATH.
This is suboptimal - hardcoded PATHs are a bad thing. In my
environment this causes posting not to work at all. Now I'll have to
use dpkg-divert on inews.
Ian.
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