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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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