Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:53:10AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Tag: package-installs-file-to-usr-x11r6-bin >> Type: error >> Info: Debian has switched to the modular X tree which now uses the regular >> FHS paths, and all packages must follow. All packages installing binaries >> must install them into /usr/bin (or some other appropriate location) >> instead of /usr/X11R6/bin. >> . >> The x11-common package attempts to change /usr/X11R6/bin into a symlink >> to /usr/bin, so if this migration has already occurred, a package >> installing files into /usr/X11R6/bin may appear to install >> successfully. However, such a package will be left in an inconsistent >> state and may orphan files when the compatibility link goes away. >> . >> If the package uses imake, it must build-depend on xutils-dev (>= >> 1:1.0.2-1) for the correct paths. > Doing this was broken anyway, unless it was part of the core X Window > System, which it wasn't. It used to be a warning that said you were only supposed to do this if the package used imake. (Policy still says that's allowed; we'll have to get policy changed once everything has settled down and then I can re-add the policy references to the lintian tests.) > The tests look fine to me; thanks again for taking this on. Absolutely. I'll get them committed. We were about due for another lintian release anyway. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
