rationale for "debianutils" directory?

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:05:11 -0500 (EST)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 
>   i've always wondered what the justification is for a separate
> "debianutils" directory.  i mean, it's not as if what's in there is
> exclusive to debian-based systems.
> 
>   for instance, "run-parts" can be found on fedora core systems, as
> can mktemp and readlink and so on.  wouldn't it make more sense to
> just divvy up the contents of that directory among the other applet
> directories to which those tools are related?

There is a debian package call debianutils which contains these
programs, that is what they all have in common.

AFAIK they were developed by debian and then adopted by other distro's.

If you can find a place where each of them belongs then i dont object
to splitting them up.


Glenn