Hello again Justin B Rye. Thanks for your followup and patch. (Please feel free to base your patches on top of the pkg-util-linux git repo, see: debcheckout util-linux)
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:35:19PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: > Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > Thanks for your patch. Pushed it and will be part of next upload. > > Meanwhile I've just noticed another thing that needs fixing: > > # Package: mount > [...] > # Description: tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems > # This package provides the mount(8), umount(8), swapon(8), swapoff(8), and > # losetup(8) commands. > > What happened to findmnt(8)? It was likely added later (but before my time). While all the other utilities in the "mount" package is linux-only, the findmnt utility should probably live in an arch:any package like util-linux instead. AFAIK findmnt works on Hurd, et.al. as well (unlike the other utilities in the mount package listed in its description). On the other hand, since noone has asked for it to be moved I wonder if it's worth the effort...... While thinking about the above, I hope you can live with the findmnt utility not being part of the package description for now. Also wondering about the usefulness of having the full content listed in the description of the package. The pro would be: - apt-cache search <tool> will find the package The cons would be: - apt-file show <pkg> does a better job at listing contents. - people should use apt-file search <file> when looking for commands instead of apt-cache search. I can acknowledge that it might be useful to be decent against users who do not know about the existance of apt-file and how to use it, but also don't think the list in the description needs to be extensive just as long as it contains the most promiment and likely-to-be-searched-for utilities. Since these packages are essential I wonder who would ever search for findmnt, since it's pretty much guaranteed it's already installed on every users system already. A more useful patch would probably be to completely revamp the mount package description. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
