Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib
Zachary Harris <zacharyharris@hotmail.com> writes:
> I'm happy with how the package works for me personally from the
> command line. What something like FHS-utils could mean for helping a
> distro like Debian maintain general FHS compliance on user systems is
> yet another question entirely. Possibilities include:
> 1) The fhscheck tool could simply be used by package maintainers to help
> guide decisions about where to install their libraries (/usr/lib
> vs. /lib).
As a package maintainer, I'd be very interested in the results of this run
across the archive to pick up problems with various packages, similar to
how we do with debcheck and the like. It's easy to miss problems like
this due to newly-introduced upstream dependencies on things.
I realize there's a larger debate at the moment over whether this
distinction is useful, but until we make a clear decision to stop
supporting it, it's nice to have tools to help us support what we're
currently supporting. And it also makes it clear how large of a problem
we have with following this separation, which can inform the decision of
whether to continue to support it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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