Bug#631857: developers-reference: please document best practices for relocating binaries

2011-06-27 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2011-06-27 22:36 +0200]: > Package: developers-reference > Severity: wishlist > > … > the policy, for example, searching the archive for the binary name with ^^ This was a typo, 'developers-reference' is more appropriate for this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-polic

Bug#631857: developers-reference: please document best practices for relocating binaries

2011-06-27 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: developers-reference Severity: wishlist Recently a bug (#631830) was found that was caused by relocating a binary from /usr/sbin to /sbin without adapting an other package that uses an hardcoded path to this binary (in /etc/sudoers.d/). As far as I know, a compatibility symlink would not