Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.8-3 Severity: serious Justification: Etch RC Policy 5.(c) Tags: pending
(Bug is present up to and including 1:2.1.9-2.) Mailman installs architecture-independent program files not written except at install/upgrade time in /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/ . That's a gross violation of the FHS, which mandates /usr/ instead of /var/ . 1:2.1.9-3 will make it /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email, which is still suboptimal (the non-compiled files should be in /usr/share, being architecture-independent), and may technically still be a violation, although not a "gross" one, but more difficult to achieve (the files are compiled at install/upgrade time; the compiled versions must be in /usr/lib; not sure there even _is_ a way to have sources and compiled versions separated in Python - if any Python expert can contradict me on that, please do! Possibly the Debian python-packaging automating tools already handle this /usr/share and /usr/lib thing decently, but this has to be checked, and is doubtful, since /usr/lib/python2.4 contains so many .py files). -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
