On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:03:27AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> writes: > > > Package: lintian > > Version: 1.23.41 > > Severity: normal > > > > Lintian checks if files have an rpath set, and warns if they do, unless > > it is set to /usr/lib/packagename. This is incorrect for games, they > > would need it to /usr/lib/games/packagename. > > Why? FHS chapter 4, at the end of the paragraph on "Specific options" in /usr/share, says: Similarly, a /usr/lib/games hierarchy may be used in addition to the /usr/share/games hierarchy if the distributor wishes to place some game data there. Neither policy nor developers' reference say anything about this, but I think most games choose to use both /usr/share/games and /usr/lib/games for game data. The good thing about this is that it makes it very easy to do things to all games at once (exclude them from backups, for example). Anyway, since there is no requirement to use /usr/*/games/, I suppose the check should only be modified to allow it for games, not to warn when /usr/lib/packagename is used. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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