Re: [gnu.gnustep.discuss] Debian package of gstep-xraw
Hi,
until a year ago I played a lot with the GNUstep stuff.
I think that the non-conformant layout is not a valid reason to put
the packages in contrib. I think GNUstep can be though as something
like teTeX that keeps everything in /usr/lib and the binaries in
/usr/bin. GNUstep can be adapted by simply simlinking the bins or
by moving them to /usr/bin.
Another problem is (well, was.. I don't know if that was solved)
that the gstep-make package doesn't set right the sonames of the shared
libs, i.e., it doesn't uses the major version of the library as part
of the soname. I wrote to the gnustep list about that and I also sent
some diffs but they didn't incorporated them and told me they weren't
interested in that (this is the main reason of me quitting to track
the gnustep stuff *grin*)
Ciao,
Federico
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 03:03:25PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Excerpt from /usr/doc/gstep-base/README.Debian
>
> The GNUstep packages use a directory layout that doesn't conform to the
> FSSTND, therefore the packages go into the contrib section of Debian.
>
> This isn't a valid reason, is it?
>
> Excerpt from Debian policy:
>
> Examples of packages which would be included in "contrib" are
>
> [...]
> * packages which we don't want to support because they are too
> buggy, and
> * packages which fail to meet some other policy requirements in a
> serious way.
>
> If GNUstep is buggy, then the former applies.
>
> If GNUstep doesn't fit FSSTND/FHS then the latter applies since FSSTND
> is policy.
>
>
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