On 02/03/2015 03:17 AM, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Debian Policy 10.4 (Files/Scripts) notes that: > > When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the > script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl that > denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it. > > sg3-utils includes /usr/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh, which violates that > recommendation in the policy.
Yes. But rescan-scsi-bug is a very widely known tool. And on every distribution, it is known as, along with the .sh extension. > > Note however, that the package "scsitools" already includes a command > named "rescan-scsi-bus" under /sbin/rescan-scsi-bus, which would > conflict with sg3-utils if rescan-scsi-bus.sh would be renamed to > rescan-scsi-bus. Besides being quite confusing, should one happen to > install both packages, it turns out that both of these scripts seem to > be derived from a common ancestor. Maybe a solution can be found > between the package maintainers such that Debian ends up with only one > version of that script. From what I've checked so far, that is not from the same upstream as sg3-utils. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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