On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > > E: mh-book: executable-in-usr-doc > > > usr/doc/mh-book/html/download/split/mh/bin/incs 0755 > > > > > > So, can I let these example scripts be executable, or not? > > > > Examples should go in /usr/doc/<package>examples/ . Lintian will not > > complain about executables in that directory. > > I don't see a good reason why they could not be put directly in > /usr/doc/<package> in case there are only a few of them. > > If allowing this requires to change policy, then I think we should change > policy.
I second this notion. I wrote a script for the wanpipe package that checks to see if the kernel patches have been applied, and does this if needed. It really doesn't belong in /usr/doc/$package/examples, but I put it there to get lintian to be quiet. I don't think that it belongs anywhere else - I definitely don't want to clutter up /usr/sbin with it, and I don't think that it should be in /etc/wanpipe either. Comments? Ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing Network Admin - LHS Group | when I was passing through satisfaction...
