Re: Arch-dependent files in /usr/share

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> writes:

> All the cmake files in the list, on the other hand, should be shippable
> in /usr/lib/

> I'm not sure about all the lintian overrides in there. Maybe a fix needs
> to be applied in lintian for arch specific overrides ?

I think it's worth considering whether we should just dump the Lintian
checks for arch-independent files in /usr/lib, and make a corresponding
change to Policy that says that packages are free to put arch-independent
files there.  No one is ever going to bother to move the files in, say,
LibreOffice into /usr/share, since the theoretical gain totally isn't
worth the effort in maintaining the package.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>