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Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories



[-devel dropped; moved to -policy]

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:11:19AM +0200, christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de wrote:
>  > Finally, it would be very nice if the hierarchy was under
>  > /usr/share/texmf rather than /usr/lib/texmf since the texmf hierarchy
>  > was designed to be sharable this way ... and it will also make it much
>  > easier to make "installers" for things such as the TeX Live 3 CD-ROM
>  > we're just now issuing.
> 
> We have to discuss this. What do others (debian-devel) say to this
> point? 

This IMO is a policy issue: FSSTND (/usr/lib/texmf/) or FHS
(/usr/share/texmf)? Debian 2.0 isn't intended to be FHS compliant, but (as
far as I know) there are no real objections against a maintainer switching a
package from FSSTND to FHS locations. I don't think this should happen in
the deep freeze though.

So my opinion would be: move to /usr/share/texmf, but do so in slink.

Ray
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