Re: Question about enable-absolute-paths option

From: Shengjing Zhu <zhsj_at_debian.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 13:07:17 +0800

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 2:15 AM Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org> wrote:
> Why is it so hard to do things the right way instead of looking for
> technical workarounds to political problems (which never works)?

Because it's hard to tell what is right...The rule for what's right is
already political(or policy) problem...

> Do you do this with other packages?

Because the situation for execline is too rare for me. I haven't met
other software that claims the binary names which are too familiar for
most people, like cd.
And I'm mostly agree that binaries like cd/umask/wait are not POSIX
compatible[1]

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906250#22


So it seems to me that we can't reach a result that satisfies to both side.

I hope I can refrain to package exeline, but it's a dependency of s6.
However the binaries(cd, umask, wait) that cause problem are not
dependency of s6. It's unfair to stop packaging s6 since that.



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