Hi Danai, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:08:10PM +0200, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote: > I recently posted bug #545127 (see [1]) as I noticed that the package > `publican' stores some shared files in /usr/share/Publican/ but stores > its documentation in /usr/share/doc/publican/. > As an end user, I expected /usr/share/publican/, given that the > package name is `publican'. > However, the upstream package uses /usr/share/Publican/. The Debian > Maintainer (Mikahil Gusarov, in CC) does not wish to change the > upstream source without a good reason, and that is perfectly > understandable. > The Debian Policy [2] has two places in which it says something about > /usr/share/: sections 8.2 (Shared library support files) and 10.7.3 > (Configuration Files > Behavior). However, according to Mikhail both > sections are not applicable, either because there are currently no > shared packages or because `publican' has no ./configure. [Correct me > if I'm wrong, Mikhail.] Mikhail suggests to change some of the > wording in the policy under 10.7.3 (see [1]). > I see a few options here: > - the policy does not cover this issue, and it is up to the the Debian > Maintainer to decide how the directory in /usr/share/ is called; > - the policy requires that directories in /usr/share/ be exactly > /usr/share/<package-name>/. Given that <package-name> must use > lowercase letters (Debian Policy 5.6.1). Most packages already do > this, but this would affect some packages like X11 or PolicyKit, as > Mikhail Gusarov noted; > - the policy recommends /usr/share/<package-name>/, unless it is too > difficult to implement. > I would be most grateful if anyone could clarify this situation. Policy does indeed not require that directory names under /usr/share follow a particular pattern. Namespace conflicts are resolved ad-hoc, generally the same way that package namespace conflicts are; and in the case of a directory that's a capitalized form of the package name, there should be no namespace collision because package names must all be lowercase, so nothing else could claim precedence for this directory name. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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