Re: Questions Regarding Debian OCaml Packaging and FHS Compliance for Shared Files

[Bo YU <tsu.yubo@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 3:34 PM Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Le 25/09/2024 à 16:40, Bo YU a écrit :
> > I would like to put these share files into `/usr/share/ocaml/lem`
> > unless there is a better suggestion. Is that okay?
>
> Why not directly /usr/share/lem? Are these files of any use outside of
> lem, but inside the OCaml ecosystem?

Good point! I misunderstood at first, but you're right. Initially, I
misunderstood that all shared files from OCaml-related packages should
be put `/usr/share/ocaml/`: if these share files was only used under
OCaml namespace, the hypothesis is valid. If only as a separated
package, in generally we put these files into /usr/share/$(package).
this is today I learn.

But for lem, maybe it hits exactly what you're talking about.
linksem[0] will use these share files, this is in line with the lem
upstream design[1], I'm not sure if there are other non-OCaml related
packages that use these files. So these files under share/ of lem were
used with OCaml ecosystem package at least by now.If I understand
correctly, we should choose to use `/usr/share/ocaml/lem` for lem.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks for the your help and time again!

[0]: https://salsa.debian.org/ocaml-team/linksem/-/blob/debian/main/debian/rules?ref_type=heads#L11
[1]: https://github.com/rems-project/lem?tab=readme-ov-file#without-opam
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>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Stéphane