[CC nmh maintainer] Hello!
I am packaging mmh (http://marmaro.de/prog/mmh), which is fork of nmh. Both of them are mail user agents. nmh installs it's binaries (~20) into /usr/bin/nmh. Now I try to do the same, and install mmh's binaries into /usr/bin/mmh, but Lintian complain about FHS violation. The only allowed subdir of /usr/bin is /usr/bin/mh. Installing mmh into /usr/bin/mh would be impolite to `nmh', since `mh' is historical name, like `vi'. So I consider using alternatives mechanism. Unfortunately, `mmh' and `nmh' are not totally equivalent -- mmh has lesser count of commands. I think about alternatives not for binaries, but for whole directories: /usr/bin/mh -> /usr/lib/nmh | /usr/lib/mmh /etc/mh -> /etc/nmh | /etc/mmh ... Is it allowed? Is it good solution? And what to do with man pages? For example, both provides `scan(1)', but only `nmh' has `mhshow(1)'. -- Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff Accept-Language: eo,en,ru X-Keep-In-CC: yes X-Web-Site: sinsekvu.github.io