Re: mass bug gnustep programs: policy violation
Philip Miller writes:
> Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > Le mar 22/06/2004 à 05:35, Dan Weber a écrit :
> >
> >>There is a serious policy violation regarding all programs dependant
> >>upon gnustep-base1 and themselves. They break Section 9.1.1 of the
> >>Debian Policy.
> >>
> >>Using /usr/lib/GNUstep for non-lib and executable binaries for direct
> >>invocation is not permitted.
> >
> > Mozilla and OpenOffice.org also violate the FHS in a similar way. The
> > packagers say that for such huge applications, having files all around
> > the system is more a problem than violating FHS.
>
> I just looked at the output of dpkg -L mozilla-browser, and I don't see
> anything that violates the FHS in the way described.
> /usr/mozilla/mozilla-bin is not meant for direct invocation by the user,
> because there is a shell script shipped as /usr/bin/mozilla-1.6 that sets up
> the environment for it before it runs.
how does this differ from, i.e. the gnumail package providing the
wrapper as /usr/bin/gnumail?
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