Hi! On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:50:36PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > the following mail needs your attention and I think Daniel > missed to CC you on it.
Nope. I've sent a copy via X-Debbugs-Cc to tracero...@p.d.o. I haven't heard back from the traceroute maintainers, though, so thanks for following up on this. > 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
