bin-sbin-mismatch
The package installs a binary under /usr/sbin or
/sbin but the specified file or maintainer script appears to
incorrectly reference it under /usr/bin or /bin.
This is likely due to the maintainer identifying that the package
requires root privileges or similar and thus installing the files to
the sbin variant, but the package has not been comprehensively
or completely updated to match.
For ELF files, false positives could be related to the SHF_MERGE
option to ld. The option saves space by providing different
start indices into the same static location in object files.
Unfortunately, the sub-string information is lost in that process.
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check files/contents.
This tag is experimental.
Visibility: info