Bug#405454: lintian: [new check] init script in level S must only use commands from /sbin:/bin
2016-04-12 4:46 GMT+03:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>:
> On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:53:01 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Martin-=C3=89ric_Racine?=
> <q-funk@iki.fi> wrote:
>> On systems with a separate /usr filesystem, several boot scripts in level S
>> break because they use commands from /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. Culprits include
>> scripts for essential packages that perform system initialization.
>
> As of stretch, /usr is mounted by the initramfs. There is no longer
> any reason to not use binaries from /usr. This bug should then be
> closed.
That assumption is (no pun intended) a far stretch.
The only way that /usr can be mounted by initramfs is if it resides on
a local disk. This won't succeed if it resides on a network disk.
That was the entire point of having that standard of using binaries
only in /bin and /sbin in the first place.
Martin-Éric
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