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GNUInstallDirs: Fix misinterpretation of Debian Policy on LIBEXECDIR

Timo Röhling requested to merge roehling/cmake:revert-debian-libexec into master

This reverts !5349 (merged).

The Debian Policy builds upon FHS 3.0 and permits installing to /usr/libexec. While Policy does grant an additional exception for applications to use a single subdirectory of /usr/lib/<triplet>, this is not meant to replace /usr/libexec as valid target.

Fixes: #22731 (closed)
Backport: release

Edited by Brad King

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