#1064835 zfsutils-linux: installs same filename to both bin and sbin

#1064835#5
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2024-02-26 13:14:02 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

your package installs the filenames `arc_summary` and `arcstat` and `zfs` and `zilstat` and `zpool` and `zvol_wait` to both bin and sbin as opposed to just one of those locations.

This causes a problem on a filesystem layout where bin and sbin are merged into a single real directory, typically by sbin being a symlink to bin. Such a filesystem layout has become standard on some distributions now, and others are moving onto in their next releases.

Please pick one location and install it only there. /usr/bin is preferred over any other location.

Thank you for maintaining software in debian.

#1064835#10
Date:
2024-02-27 13:09:06 UTC
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Hi,

Yes, this is intended. These files were first installed to sbin, later moved to bin. Symlinks are thus created to provide compatibility to user scripts.

UsrMerge [1] says Debian has no plan to merge bin and sbin. Nonetheless we do plan to remove the symlinks at certain version after the move.

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge

Thanks,
Shengqi Chen