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Re: Testing/mesademos



>> Jon Pennington <dren@whack.org> writes:

 > Absolutely!  This is what I meant to say.

 Oh, sorry, I missunderstood.
 
 > Shipping the mesademos package in binary form does not make any
 > sense.  There are too many libGL implementations floating around for
 > that.

 Actually, this is a tempting reason to ship them as binaries.  The
 program *can not* fail with "undefined symbol foobar".  If it does,
 either the program is badly broken or the OpenGL implementation used to
 compile it is even more broken.  But no, I'm not going to do this for
 this reason.

 > Why compress them at all?
 
 Policy.  I would install the files on
 /usr/shared/doc/mesademos/examples, which makes them documentation,
 which falls under this:

      Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be
      installed at the discretion of the package maintainer.  Text
      documentation should be installed in a directory
      `/usr/share/doc/<package>', where <package> is the name of the
      package, and compressed with `gzip -9' unless it is small.  

-- 
Marcelo



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