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Re: Bug#545127: Policy of capitalisation of <packagename> in /usr/share/?



Twas brillig at 15:08:10 05.09.2009 UTC+02 when danai@debian.org did gyre and gimble:

 DS> The Debian Policy [2] has two places in which it says something
 DS> about /usr/share/: sections 8.2 (Shared library support files) and
 DS> 10.7.3 (Configuration Files > Behavior).  However, according to
 DS> Mikhail both sections are not applicable, either because there are
 DS> currently no shared packages or because `publican' has no
 DS> ./configure.  [Correct me if I'm wrong, Mikhail.]

Let me elaborate a bit. Publican is pure-Perl application with
arch-indep data stored under /usr/share/Publican.

8.2 talks about shared library support files, and recommends using
/usr/share/<pkgname> in order to avoid conflicts between libfooN and
libfooM.

10.7.3 talks about `package-configure' auxiliary files for maintainer
scripts, Publican does not use such thing.

10.7.3 refers to /usr/share/<package> and /usr/lib/<package>, though
there is no requirement to use such directories, so I'd change it to say
`arch-indep or arch-dep directories used by package'.

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