Re: RFS: checkinstall
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:40:20PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > I doubt it. Debian users are used to find their configuration
> > under /etc, because all packages do that. Even, users of any LSB/FHS
> > compliant distro expect that. I can't think of a reason why someone
> > would think that for "checkinstall" this would be different than for any
> > of the thousands of other packages in Debian.
> I'd think that too, but since checkinstall *does* install the files in such
> places, a person that had been using checkinstall downloaded from upstream
> would expect to find the files in the same places. OTOH, such a user might
> be very unlikely. So, README.Debian is gone, and the package has ben
> reuploaded.
The accepted practice is to have a symlink in /usr (or wherever) which
points to the relevant path in /etc. That way, the program doesn't
have to be hacked, if thats complicated, and users can edit whichever
path they want (assuming their editor doesn't break the link). This
is even mentioned in policy.
Justin
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