Re: New release of iptraf
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:21:45PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 10:31:44PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> >
> > > Why not just have the file in /usr/doc/iptraf and run it from
> > > there in the postinst?
> >
> > Well, /usr/doc is meant to be moving to /usr/share/doc with FHS, and
> > /usr/share is meant to be for architecture-inspecific data.
>
> It's a script isn't it? Scripts are rarely architecture-specific. I
> agree /usr/doc/ is a less than optimal place for a conversion script
> but my main point was that moving stuff around under dpkg's nose was
> Evil and should be avoided, other than that, I'm not really too
> bothered where it goes and so on.
Well, if it's a script couldn't it just be imported into the postinst,
at build time if necessary? I assumed it was a binary. If it's a script
then /usr[/share]/doc should be fine.
Hamish
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