Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:58:38 +0200, > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> On 2/2/07, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > The change requested in 408154 is a policy violation. Packages are not >> > > allowed to ship any directories under the /usr/local heirarchy; they >> > > must be >> > > created in the postinst and removed in the prerm. >> > > >> > > This bug now blocks getting the fix for RC bug 403703 into etch, so >> > > please >> > > revert the change. > > Hm, I understand the situation. > >> > Instead of just reverting, you could also apply this simple patch: >> > + >> > + * Use dh_usrlocal to install files in /usr/local in the maintainer >> > + scripts, instead of shipping them in the deb >> >> Unless I misunderstood the man page, dh_usrlocal is meant for software >> that builds into /usr/local, which we don't. We're only adding a local >> directory in case others need it to install their own PPD. > > I think so too.
No, you both are wrong. No Debian package is allowed to "build into /usr/local". However, they may *provide* empty directories below /usr/local, see the Debian Policy "9.1.2 Site-specific programs". Here, provide means to create/remove them in maintainer scripts, exiting gracefully if /usr/local is mounted read-only. dh_usrlocal is exactly for this, as you can see from the manpage: *********** dh_usrlocal is a debhelper program that can be used for building packages that will provide a subdirectory in /usr/local when installed ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *********** or by just trying the patch... >> We probably should not ship any directory in /usr/local or /opt >> anyhow. You should, as correctly requested in #408154, and (at least for /usr/local) suggested in the Debian policy >> Even worse, those PPD directories are not only used by CUPS; other >> PostScript applications and printer daemons use them too. The proper >> solution would be to add those directories to the filesystem skeleton >> used by debian-installer and to the FHS specs. No, before this can be done you'd have to change Debian Policy, who currently leaves this to individual packages. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
