Ideas for packaging FreeBSD binaries

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:13:37PM +0800, Jett Tayer wrote:
> >>
> >The problem I see there is that we won't package all /sbin binaries  
> >from this package, as some of them will probably be provided by  
> >other debian package. This also mean we will have to check license  
> >issues for all stuff in the tarball instead of only the license of  
> >the /sbin binaries we want to provide. This will probably be more  
> >true for the bin package.
> >
> >And moreover a binary in /sbin in FreeBSD could be placed in /bin  
> >in Debian and vice-versa.
> >
> Let us leave /sbin binaries in FreeBSD to reside in /sbin in Debian  
> for compatibility reasons so we as FreeBSD users will go easy dealing  
> with GNU/kFreeBSD. You know, we got used to it.
> 

What about Debian GNU/Linux users? They'll probably says that for
compatibility reasons, those binaries should be at the same place as on
Debian GNU/Linux :).

The problem is not there, it is rather about compatibility with Debian
scripts, and with LSB.

Bye,
Aurelien

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