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Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy



On  5 Jan, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
>> I think that /usr/src should the be domain of the local admin.
> 

I disagree.
/usr/local/src is for local admin.


>> 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. 

add liblockdev0g-dbg and libdb2-dbg to that list.
I recently managed to add some sources in my -dbg shared lib packages,
to make them easily debuggable. (See bug#16038 on 30 Dec)


Fabrizio
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