On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dmitry Polevoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I try to find extra info about dat-files, but I can't do it fast (these > files very old and have long history). I guess the main question Debian people have is whether the data files are expected to change in the future. If they are just used, all is fine. But if they are changed and rebuilt for new releases then they might be considered "binaries" rather than "source" and Debian is very strict about having the source. > As about cuneiform package we should change package name to 'openocr' > because of Cognitive have some problems with american comercial 'Cuneiform' > trademark and so on. This is fine by me. I'll keep this Launchpad instance running until the transition and leave a forwarding message after that. > I am novice in xNix packages, rpm and so on and I have some questions: > - what dirs are preferable for runtime, library (static), datafiles, user > files and so on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard Basically /usr/bin executables /etc configuration files (Cuneiform currently does not have these) /usr/lib shared libraries /usr/share/<progname> data files > - what structure should have xNix package In practice CMake does 90% of the work already. The final 10% is distro/package specific and done by the package maintainer. For the details you can read distos' packaging guides. > - I found some problem with library names in > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496264, what do you think > about it I wouldn't worry. They say they have a fix for that already. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cuneiform Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cuneiform More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
