On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > David Goodenough <david.goodeno...@btconnect.com> wrote: > > > I am a newcommer to this particular bit of policy, but it occurs to me that > > the answer is to add links to the original commands to conform to > > Debian standards while leaving the upstream commands intact. > > That would horribly clutter the bin directories. I think the approach > with a /usr/share/$packagename/bin/ that contains the old names as > links, and can be added to PATH, is the best we can do for supporting > scripts that assume extensions.
That would mean a possibly overlong PATH. A single place for those scripts would be better. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
