On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 14:42:43 +0200, Alex wrote: > However, on my machine, the passmenu script is installed to > > $ dpkg -S passmenu > pass: /usr/share/doc/pass/examples/dmenu/passmenu > > Before raising a bug against the pass package I wanted to understand > whether this is correct? Why would an executable script end up in > /usr/share/doc?
I'm not familiar with this specific package, but a very similar situation happened with the "safecat" package. If you install the upstream version of safecat from source, you get /usr/local/bin/safecat which is a compiled binary program, and /usr/local/bin/maildir which is a wrapper script. The upstream source code also includes MAN PAGES(!) for both of these programs. They're both meant to be installed, and most people only use the maildir(1) wrapper program. However, the Debian package only installs /usr/bin/safecat and the safecat(1) man page. The maildir wrapper program is not installed, not even in /usr/share/doc/safecat/, nor is its man page installed. See <https://bugs.debian.org/132520>, <https://bugs.debian.org/184920> and <https://bugs.debian.org/220849> for starters (but note that at some point, even the /examples/ subdirectory was removed from the package, though I can't find a changelog entry for that). In your case, it sounds like the Debian maintainer has done something similar. For *whatever* reason, they've chosen not to install this wrapper(?) script, and have left it in /usr/share/doc/pass/examples/ as part of the upstream package's documentation. My suggestions to you would be to do both of the following: 1) See whether a bug has already been filed against pass, and if not, file one yourself. 2) Create /usr/local/bin/passmenu which is the missing program that you need. Copy it from the /examples/ subdirectory, modify it however you need, and use it. Make sure you do this on all the systems where you need it, and that it follows you across Debian release upgrades, system replacements, and so on. I hope you have better luck with your package's maintainer than I had with mine.
