Brice Goglin (18/02/2007):
> Fortunately, the manpage of mkdirhier it pretty clear about mkdir -p
> being enough/better. So we can expect that very few people will
> start using mkdirhier nowadays.
And mkdirhier itself uses mkdir -p nowadays:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/imake/commit/
tags 314565 wontfix
thank you
I don't think removing mkdirhier just for these reasons is a good idea
since we would have to check/update multiple packages accordingly.
Fortunately, the manpage of mkdirhier it pretty clear about mkdir -p
being enough/better. So we can expect that very few people
Package: xutils
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14
Severity: minor
Since 2002-09-28 (/usr/share/doc/coreutils/changelog.gz) mkdir from
coreutils supports the creation of directory hierarchies with a switch.
Therefore there is no need for mkdirhier, except to confuse people into
using it and depending on xu
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