Manual sections vs. /bin or /sbin location
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I came across a bug report in Debian noting that findmnt is in /bin, not /sbin, but its manual page is in section 8. Should one or the other be moved so they line up?
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Does this still matters now? For example:
https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring-update-intervention/
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/util-linux
Quoted 10 lines · Phillip Susi
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Hash: SHA512I came across a bug report in Debian noting that findmnt is in /bin, not /sbin, but its manual page is in section 8. Should one or the other be moved so they line up?
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Karel Zak
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Hash: SHA512I came across a bug report in Debian noting that findmnt is in /bin, not /sbin, but its manual page is in section 8. Should one or the other be moved so they line up?
Good point, although I don't think that everything in section 8 has to be in /sbin.
findmnt, lsblk and lslocks have been originally designed as administrator's tools so we have selected section 8, but now it's pretty usable for non-root users and the tools are commonly used, so maybe move it to the section 1 makes sense.
I don't have any strong opinion about it, if you want to move the man pages to the section 1 then send a patch. The paths should be unchanged.
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