Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I do think image-file-in-usr-lib ought to be downgraded to an > informative message. It's the sort of thing that bites in all sorts of > random packages (see > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Timage-file-in-usr-lib.html) and is > typically fiddly and varied to deal with, and a lot of the images > involved are little things like icons where the effort doesn't really > justify the gain; if they were embedded into executables, we likely > wouldn't care.
> It's been a while since I was particularly involved in lintian > maintenance, so I don't feel that I can change this unilaterally. What > do the other lintian maintainers think of my position? This is really a broader question than just lintian. Packages have been rejected by ftp-master for things like this before, and it doesn't do people any good for us to relax our warning if ftp-master is still going to reject packages. It does look like the FHS gives us leeway to put arch-independent files into /usr/lib at the discretion of the packager, so as near as I can tell this isn't a direct policy violation. But I'd really like to see some debian-devel or debian-policy discussion of this and some opinion from ftp-master about what level they're willing to enforce before we make a change. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
