On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:18:29PM +0200, Michal Trojnara wrote:
On Saturday 22 September 2007 07:50, Andrew Schulman wrote:
The Debian package of stunnel changed the default location of the binaries, from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. This is because we consider that stunnel is not an admin only tool, but is useful to regular users (as it does not require root privileges for several common use cases).
I did the same in Cygwin (or maybe the previous packager did; anyway Cygwin puts the main executable in /usr/bin), for the same reason.
My comment to all port maintainers, if my opinion as the mainstream author is somehow relevant:
Indeed it is :)
I don't recommend implementing any changes that break mainstream compatibility.
I agree with the idea. Unfortunately, I'm now sort of forced to do this because
a) If I don't, I'll be breaking the LSB, and thus, Debian policy.
b) The change is already done (indeed, it was done by the previous maintainer quite a while ago). Changing it back now will just bring pointles breakage to users.
Actually, the point of my mail was to see if I could stop carrying this divergence, by having the change incorporated here, upstream. I read your answer as saying 'no', and that's fine by me. The change has not been a support burden so far, so I will keep it. That's I think, the correct compromise, as it's Debian's (and not mainstream's) requirements I'm serving with it.