On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 06:39:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The FHS requirement that architecture-independent application-specific > static files be located in /usr/share is relaxed to a suggestion. > > In particular, a subdirectory of /usr/lib may be used by a package > (or a collection of packages) to hold a mixture of architecture-independent > and architecture-dependent files. However, when a directory is > entirely composed of architecture-independent files, it should be > located in /usr/share.
There are various packages which ship only architecture-independent files in /usr/lib/<foo> directories. One example is [0]. What's the rationale to explicitly make a distinction between directories holding only architecture-independent files and ones consisting of a mixture? Since [0] would violate this should rule, what would that mean in practice: still a bug, though non-RC severity (normal?)? Otherwise, I'm all for relaxing that requirement and thanks for starting the discussion! Michael [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740345 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
