> stupid idea: > > do these scripts (and other consumers of the netgen binaries) actually > use the fully qualified "/usr/bin/netgen" or just an unqualified "netgen"? > > if the latter, you might just put the unchanged names into something > like /usr/share/netgen/bin/ and tell users to add to that to their PATH > when running their scripts. > that provides a simple compat layer for out-of-distro scripts. > rdeps in Debian should be patched to use debianized script-names.
Thanks, IOhannes This may actually turn out to be the best idea if the policy is not changed as a result of the discussion that has started. :) Ruben
