Bug#146023: [PROPOSAL]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for binaries in lib* packages
* Manoj Srivastava (srivasta@debian.org) [041029 09:25]:
> +++ policy.sgml Tue May 7 01:11:23 2002
> @@ -5598,6 +5598,15 @@
> </p>
>
> + <p>
> + If your package includes run-time support programs that
> + do not need to be invoked manually by users, but are
> + nevertheless required for the package to function, then it
> + is recommended that these programs are placed
> + (if they are binary) in a subdirectory of
> + <file>/usr/lib</file>, preferably under
> + <file>/usr/lib/</file><var>package-name</var>.
> + If the program is architecture independent, the
> + recommendation is for it to be placed in a subdirectory of
> + <file>/usr/share</file> instead, preferably under
> + <file>/usr/lib/</file><var>package-name</var>.
^ share
> + </p>
> +
> <p>
> If you have several shared libraries built from the same
> source tree you may lump them all together into a single
> shared library package, provided that you change all of
> ======================================================================
>
> I am looking for seconds for this modified proposal, and as
> always, am open for corrections and improvement of the language.
Seconded (though I don't really like to repeat more or less the sentence
twice, with just exchaning of lib with share).
Cheers,
Andi
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