Re: Splitting in /usr/lib/<arch> and /usr/share

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>, 2014-03-10, 20:24:
> > > > FHS does: "Miscellaneous architecture-independent 
> > > > application-specific static files and subdirectories must be placed 
> > > > in /usr/share." [1]
> > > Do we enforce this?

Not really.

> > "9.1.1 File System Structure
> >
> > The location of all files and directories must comply with the 
> > Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), version 2.3, with the exceptions 
> > noted below, and except where doing so would violate other terms of 
> > Debian Policy. [...]" [2]
> >
> > I would interpret this as: Yes, we do.
> I mean do we check this in e.g. lintian.

To some extent:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/image-file-in-usr-lib.html

> I also wonder if finding an arch-indep file in /usr/lib should result 
> in an RC bug.

No. We should relax the policy to match the current practice.

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Jakub Wilk