Re: beast executables in lib/ (Re: Accepted beast 0.6.1-4 (i386 source))

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 01:25:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tim Janik <timj birnet org>
To: Sam Hocevar <sam+deb zoy org>
Cc: Beasty Crowd <beast gnome org>, debian-devel-changes lists debian org
Subject: Re: beast executables in lib/ (Re: Accepted beast 0.6.1-4 (i386
    source))

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Tim Janik wrote:

> >    * launchers/*:
> >      + Moved real binaries to /usr/lib/beast, leavin only wrappers in /usr/bin.
>
> hi sam.
>
> i don't think this is a good idea. the stock beast
> tarballs still install the real executables to $(prefix)/bin/
> so users may invoke:
> a) specific versions of beast deliberately (important for .bse
>    file versioning/converting)
> b) the non-suid version of beast (very usefull for debugging)
>
> i.e. the binaries have their place in the public path.

testing out the debian package on somebody else's machine,
i noticed the problem is even worse. the scripts can't be
executed anymore (aren't even registered upon startup), since
you also moved the bsesh-* binary. can you please fix the package
and put the files back into place?

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ciaoTJ