Package: debianutils Version: 2.8.4 Severity: wishlist Many scripts already use the which program to find out whether or not a given program foo is available on the PATH. The contain code like this:
which foo >/dev/null 2>&1 && foo ... A problem is that there is no guarantee that which itself is available on the PATH; which is currently in /usr/bin/ and /usr can become available as late as S:S45mountnfs.sh, so initscripts that run early in the boot process cannot blindly assume that which will work. To solve this problem I suggest that which be moved into /bin/. The space impact of this change would be minimal. $ ls -l /usr/bin/which -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 884 2004-07-13 01:29 /usr/bin/which -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages debianutils depends on: ii coreutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
