Re: GNUstep and FHS
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:23:10 +0200, Eric Heintzmann <eric@gnustep.fr.st> said:
> I co-maintain the GNUstep Core packages for more than 2 years, and I
> spend a lot of time to find a solution to these problems by moving
> files accordingly to FHS, and by symlinking some directories. After
> several tests, I have to admit that I am not able to make GNUstep FHS
> compliant without breaking it. And I don't think that is possible,
> except if upstream developers change their mind.
Have you been successful it making it more FHS compliant? (e.g. moving
Library/Headers to /usr/include, moving Library/Preferences,
Library/Images, etc. to /usr/share, etc.) Is there anything in
particular that caused problems?
>From what I can tell, it's not possible to make GNUstep completely FHS
compliant without a lot of upstream help. But it looks like we should
be able to make it more compliant than it currently is.
> Since there is no other maintainer to try to make these packages FHS
> compliant, should GNUstep be removed from Debian ?
I would be interested in helping at some point. But not until at least
the middle of next month.
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