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.

Severity: info
Experimental: true

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