BUG: /sbin in util-linux package

[Bryan D. Thomas]

>> Also in the package is the /usr/sbin directory with nothing in it.
>
> That's a flaw in the source's 'make install', which is not automake based. 
> The util-linux source provides several /usr/sbin commands as well, but 
> none of them are relevant to Cygwin and are not built; the makefiles 
> create this directory anyway, regardless if anything is installed into it.

Yaakov, you are not allowed to patch the Makefile to avoid this? I ask this 
sincere question because I have just become a package maintainer.  If this 
is a rule, I want to avoid breaking it.

Best,
Bryan 




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