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I'm moving this to debian-devel instead of the bug system, as it's
a general policy issue.
Hakan Ardo:
> > For X, why not use the directories that X already has set up for images:
> > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/{bitmaps,pixmaps}
>
> If all X11 packages where to place there images in the same directory,
> there will be a grate risk of filename collitions.
Subdirectories under /usr/X11R6/include/X11/{bitmaps,pixmaps} are OK.
.../bitmaps is for XBM format ("black and white icons").
.../pixmaps is for XPM format ("color icons").
There is no common location for other formats, but I suggest
/usr/lib/images/<format>/<package>
where <format> is the name of the image format (gif, jpeg, pnm,
tiff, pbm, pgm, pnm, ppm, et cetera; we need to agree on the
name for each format), and <package> is the name of the package
(binary or source package; doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't
clash with other packages).
OTOH, this is only useful for images that can be shared. For
private images, /usr/lib/<package> can be used.
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