Manual sections vs. /bin or /sbin location

Manual sections vs. /bin or /sbin location

[Phillip Susi]

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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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Re: Manual sections vs. /bin or /sbin location

[Tom Yan]

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

On 22 June 2015 at 09:45, Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> wrote:
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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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Re: Manual sections vs. /bin or /sbin location

[Karel Zak]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 09:45:47PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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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?

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.


    Karel

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