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--- Begin Message ---Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The 'moreutils' package has a 'parallel' command, and so does the 'parallel' package. If the 'parallel' package is installed over a pre-existing installation of 'moreutils', two diversions are created (one for the 'parallel' util, and another for its man page): % dlocate parallel | grep diversion diversion by parallel from: /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz diversion by parallel to: /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.moreutils.1.gz diversion by parallel from: /usr/bin/parallel diversion by parallel to: /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils The resultant 'whereis' output is inconsistent: % whereis parallel parallel: /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils /usr/bin/parallel /etc/parallel /usr/bin/X11/parallel.moreutils /usr/bin/X11/parallel /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz % whereis parallel.moreutils parallel: /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils /usr/bin/parallel /etc/parallel /usr/bin/X11/parallel.moreutils /usr/bin/X11/parallel /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz For clarity, let's spread out that 'whereis' output, and use line numbers: % whereis parallel | tr ' ' '\n' | nl -s " " 1 parallel: 2 /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils 3 /usr/bin/parallel 4 /etc/parallel 5 /usr/bin/X11/parallel.moreutils 6 /usr/bin/X11/parallel 7 /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz Lines #2 & #5 probably don't belong. % whereis parallel.moreutils | tr ' ' '\n' | nl -s " " 1 parallel: 2 /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils 3 /usr/bin/parallel 4 /etc/parallel 5 /usr/bin/X11/parallel.moreutils 6 /usr/bin/X11/parallel 7 /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz Lines #1, #3, #6, & #7 probably don't belong. The package name (#1) is incorrect. The man page name (#7) is incorrect. HTH... -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.42 ii dpkg 1.16.3 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-22.1 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10 ii libblkid1 2.20.1-4 ii libc6 2.13-31 ii libncurses5 5.9-7 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-4 ii libslang2 2.2.4-10 ii libtinfo5 5.9-7 ii libuuid1 2.20.1-4 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian2 ii tzdata 2012b-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2 util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: pn dosfstools 3.0.12-1 pn kbd 1.15.3-9 pn util-linux-locales <none> -- debconf information: util-linux/noauto-with-nonzero-passnum:
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--- Begin Message ---Package: util-linux Hello A. Costa. I'm following up on (old) util-linux bug reports and came across yours at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671134 I must say I've spent quite some time staring at the screen here and you've had me a bit confused... Your subject line talked about inconsistencies so I've looked a long time at the result you presented to try to spot where the difference in them was.... until I finally understood that it's not that they are inconsistent, it's you who expect them to be! Right? On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 11:44:39PM -0400, A. Costa wrote: [...] > The resultant 'whereis' output is inconsistent: > > % whereis parallel > parallel: /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils /usr/bin/parallel /etc/parallel > /usr/bin/X11/parallel.moreutils /usr/bin/X11/parallel > /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz > > % whereis parallel.moreutils > parallel: /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils /usr/bin/parallel /etc/parallel > /usr/bin/X11/parallel.moreutils /usr/bin/X11/parallel > /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz Please note that you have the exact same search-pattern in both cases! (The search pattern is the part before the :) Another example for the exact same search pattern would be: whereis /foo/bar/parallell.foobar This would also give the same "parallell" search pattern as both of your examples. (Note that you can abuse whereis, to only search for parallell.moreutils by using "whereis parallell.moreutils.foobar".) This is all by design and if you would want to change this design you'd just remove code block under /* canonicalize pattern -- remove path suffix etc. */ and replace it with: strncpy(patbuf, pattern, PATH_MAX); patbuf[PATH_MAX - 1] = '\0'; in misc-utils/whereis.c lookup-function. See: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/tree/misc-utils/whereis.c#n405 The whereis is designed to give many results, if you are looking for a tool with more exact search you should check out "which". If you want the semantics changed, please feel free to argue it on the upstream mailing list. Changing it only in Debian would be a very bad idea in my opinion and I also have no problem with the current behaviour. I'll close this bug as I don't see anything in particular that I can point to as a bug. Please feel free to reopen if you see things differently or if I've misinterpretted your intentions with the bug report and provide some additional information pointing to what you feel remains for this bug report to be done. HTH Regards, Andreas Henriksson
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