Re: Bug#1032010: gettext: binary in /usr/lib should move to libexec

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Bastien Roucariès wrote in
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032010>:

> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/cldr-plurals
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/hostname
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/project-id
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/urlget
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/user-email
> should go to:
> /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/cldr-plurals
> /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/hostname
> /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/project-id
> /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/urlget
> /usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/gettext/user-email

Upstream, this will be fixed in the next release, through
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=43a4b5eeecaf9805064ec718755d0a033e8f2f9b

But upstream, the file names before and after are these:

before:
 /usr/lib/gettext/cldr-plurals
 /usr/lib/gettext/hostname
 /usr/lib/gettext/project-id
 /usr/lib/gettext/urlget
 /usr/lib/gettext/user-email
after:
 /usr/libexec/gettext/cldr-plurals
 /usr/libexec/gettext/hostname
 /usr/libexec/gettext/project-id
 /usr/libexec/gettext/urlget
 /usr/libexec/gettext/user-email

IMO, there's no point in having a per-architecture subdir under /usr/libexec.
You don't have one under /bin either. This means, a user can't install the
32-bit binaries and the 64-binaries or the x32 binaries of the gettext-tools
package together; they conflict with each other.

Bruno