Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I think that /usr/src should the be domain of the local admin.
Why? Could you please give a few arguments for that?
According to FSSTND and FHS:
``/usr/src: [...] Any non-local source code should be placed in this
subdirectory.''
[snip]
> Manoj writes:
> > Current [ractices, as far as debian is concerned, is that
> > debian owns /usr/src. This has been the case since April 1996 (that's
> > 1.75 years now!)
>
> This may be the case if you look at all packages, but I have never
> installed any packages that did this, and if I had I would have
> reported it as a bug.
A few packages currently install into /usr/src: awe-drv, debian-cd, etc.
I really fail to see what's wrong with that. IMHO, the local sysadmin has
enough space for sources in /usr/local/src. Why should we treat sources
different from libs, binaries, documentations, etc.?
Thanks,
Chris
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