Hi Daniel,

the following mail needs your attention and I think Daniel
missed to CC you on it.

Daniel Kobras wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:39:17PM +0100, Piotr Engelking wrote:
> > FHS specifies that /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin contains
> > programs
> > for use by all users. In particular, root-only programs are placed in
> > /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin, instead.
> > 
> > As traceroute-nanog works only if run by root, please do not install
> > it
> > or links to it (including alternatives) in /usr/bin.
> 
> Solving this properly is actually a bit tricky as the traceroute package
> that shares its alternatives with traceroute-nanog doesn't suffer from
> the
> root-only restriction these days, and it would be rather confusing to
> handle the alternatives in /usr/sbin different from /usr/bin. I'm
> tempted
> to sidestep this issue by letting traceroute supersede the nanog variant
> for good, and simply drop the -nanog package from Debian. Daniel, what's
> the status of the nanog emulation in traceroute proper these days? Are
> you
> aware of any relevant features still missing?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel.

Best Regards,
Patrick



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