I don't understand the point of this email -- are you advocating for some change, or to avoid some change?
(I looked at the bug report and skimmed some of the messages -- it seems like by posting this to the debian-user list you are looking for comments or support here, but the issue is not clear (to me).) On Saturday, February 02, 2019 05:31:57 AM Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Thorsten Glaser: > > Just accept that this idea, originating from the systemd people at > > Fedora/Freedesktop, is NOT welcome to classical Unix people. > > Ahem! We classical Unix people experienced this idea in the late 1980s, > from where it *really* originated, Sun and AT&T. > > * https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.sun/K9286yRtZ8c/Abwzdo05gMMJ > > The separate /sbin that you are asserting to be classical Unix and > suggesting as the place to put things here, actually was not classical > Unix in the first place. Sun's Rusty Sandberg is credited with > inventing the ideas of /var and /sbin which the world gained with SunOS > 4.0 in 1988, a year before AT&T System 5 Release 4 put it into /usr as > /usr/sbin with only a symbolic link at /sbin, and two years before > 4.3BSD Reno adopted it in 1990, the BSD world having to that point used > /etc for such binaries. Having things in lots of directories under /usr > (/usr/amdahl/bin, /usr/ucb, /usr/5bin, /usr/3bin, /usr/eun, > /usr/stanford/bin, /usr/brl, /usr/bbn, /usr/jerq/bin, and so on) > *pre-dates* the very idea of /sbin on Unix and was how things were for > most of the 1980s and the 1970s. > > * > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.questions/g9DsvKQx8h8/QNs0F-mHpR4 > J > > * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/448799/5132 > > * > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/pLc_jhCUDtU/WD92a732Nx4J > > Almost everything in *lots* of pseudo-user directories under /usr was > the actual classical Unix way.