severity 300765 wishlist
tags 300765 + upstream
tags 300765 + wontfix
On 21 March 2005 at 18:50, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
| Package: r-doc-html
| Version: 2.0.1-4
| Severity: serious
| Justification: FHS chapter 4
|
| /usr/lib : Libraries for programming and packages
| /usr/share : Architecture-independent data
|
| The documents should be somewhere in /usr/share
1) R is a rather large system -- the upstream sources come in at around 10.6
mb for the compressed 2.0.1 release, and 12.4 for the current sources of
the upcoming 2.1.0 release. R is also fairly popular and used by
thousands of people across many different operating systems.
2) On all platforms, R installs all its files below a given directory.
On Unix systems this defaults to /usr/local/lib/R. On Debian, we
use /usr/lib/R for the obvious reasons. It is similar for OS X etc pp.
3) The R Core development team is aware of the issue; I had privately raised
this before. Linux is used as a development platform by a large number
of the R Core developers (and yes, some even use Debian). They know about
the FHS.
4) As I said above, this is a large codebase and satisfying the FHS is a
nice goal in and by itself. Unfortunately, it is without any upside for
the other platforms. Still. I presume that a well-designed patch would
find the consideration of the R developers. But someone needs to write
and test the patch. So far, other priorities were more important. If
you care deeply about this, consider submitting a patch.
5) This is an upstream issue. I do suggest we close it here, and I invite
you to raise and file the issue in the upstream bug archive at
http://bugs.r-project.org
6) I disagree with your assessment of the bug severity.
Dirk
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| Debian Release: 3.1
| APT prefers testing
| APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-386
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