Re: (upstream-)contrib, /usr/doc, and Depends
James Mastros wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 09:11:36AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > "James M. Mastros" wrote:
> > > /usr/doc/naim/examples is wrong because they aren't really
> > > examples.
> > That's the only place they _can_ go. I agree that we need a new
> > directory for such things.
>
> I'm keeping them where they are (/usr/share/naim/contrib) for
> now, until somebody comes up with a better place (neither bin
> nor doc/.../examples are better, nor is a separate package (too
> much overhead, too little gain)). The FHS and debian-policy
> seem to allow it, though I'm not too thrilled with it; it just
> dosn't feel right.
You could put them in examples/ and have an examples -> contrib
symlink. That would keep lintian happy and users finding stuff
in contrib would better understand the purpose.
Peter
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