On 08-May-2005, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com> writes:
>
> > Before 0.10, the upstream installed both the binaries (actually
> > shell scripts) and the shell libraries in /usr/bin. Starting with
> > 0.10, the shell libraries are moved to /usr/lib/cogito. This
> > seems to me like a fine thing to do, any reason Debian doesnt want
> > them there?
>
> If they're really just shell libraries (and hence
> platform-independent), they should go into /usr/share rather than
> /usr/lib per the FHS.
Relevant sections of the FHS:
4.4 /usr/lib : Libraries for programming and packages
<URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-4.4.html>
4.7 /usr/share : Architecture-independent data
<URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-4.7.html>
However, there's no such thing as '/usr/share/lib'. Where should such
shell script libraries go?
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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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