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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Binary conflict between Midnight Commander and MinIO Client
From:       Jeremy_Bícha <jeremy.bicha () canonical ! com>
Date:       2024-04-24 15:12:06
Message-ID: CAD+GYvz7XEasU0TfEZRCdLiJHxL25ZS4o18fZ4J-881-g8Hhkg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 9:42 AM Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Am Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 09:28:29AM +0200 schrieb Philip Hands:
> > >> /usr/libexec/minio-client/bin/mc -> /usr/bin/mcli
> >
> > Might I suggest that the link goes the other way, so that the symlink
> > lives in /usr/bin?  That way the existence of the lib directory is
> > somewhat self-documenting.
>
> That's an interesting hint.  In Debian Med we are using a common
> directories
>
>     /usr/lib/debian-med/bin/
>     /usr/lib/debian-med/man/
>
> where those binaries will be moved to and have some kind of a
> README.Debian template[1].  Changing this to have the real executable /
> manpage to /usr/lib/debian-med/* makes sense.

I believe moving those binaries to a subdirectory of /usr/libexec/
would better comply with FHS 3.0. Maybe this could be done for the
Trixie release?

I guess a subdirectory of /usr/share/ would be appropriate for the
extra manpages.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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