Debian menu transition, part 2

Posted by tadelste on Oct 6, 2005 4:32 PM EDT
Mailing list; By Bill Allombert
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Starting with the upload of menu 2.1.26, we enter stage 2 of the menu transitions.



Dear Debian developers,



Starting with the upload of menu 2.1.26, we enter stage 2 of the menu transitions.



First some statistics about stage 1:
1196 menu entries out of 2192 have moved to /usr/share/menu, which is 55%, which is more than what I expected. Keep up this pace and Etch /usr/lib/menu will be nearly empty.



Stage 2 transition :



(It is also fully forward and backward compatible).



Sarge ships with two symlinks:
/usr/bin/su-to-root --> /usr/sbin/su-to-root
/usr/bin/install-menu --> /usr/sbin/install-menu



In Etch the file and symlink has been swapped, and the prefered location is the one in /usr/bin.



Menu files that use su-to-root should now reference it without the /usr/sbin prefix (since it is in the path).



Menu-methods should change theirs first lines from #!/usr/sbin/install-menu
to
#!/usr/bin/install-menu



Finally the wm-menu-config script have been dropped. Sarge packages maintainers scripts do not need it to function properly.



Thanks for your attention,



Bill.



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