Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> writes: > Installing the non-program files to ‘/usr/share/foopackage/images/’ (for > example) is simple enough, using ‘dh_install’.
I am using pybuild, and I am wondering why it doesn't do this automatically (maybe with some help)? Generally: pybuild seem to install all files into /usr/lib/? As far as I understand the FHS [1], architecture independent files should go to /usr/share. But, almost all python files (except maybe compiled .so extensions) are architecture independent? * .py sources * .pyc bytecode * .egg-info * helper files in png, xml, txt, ... What is the rationale between having all this in /usr/lib? And what should I do with lintian-warnings like the one above? Just silence them? I am asking a bit rigide here since I wanted to write a small newcomers tutorial to package astropy affiliated packages [2]. These packages are quite standard and therefore a good start for newcomers -- but then the final package should be "lintian-clean" with not too much efforts. The package I am using as example is wcsaxes [3], and it ends up in quite a couple of /usr/lib/.png lintian warnings. I don't want to explain to a newcomer "just ignore these, or make them silent". The Debian Policy [4] states (9.1.1): | 1. The FHS requirement that architecture-independent application- | specific static files be located in /usr/share is relaxed to a | suggestion. In particular, a subdirectory of /usr/lib may be used by a | package (or a collection of packages) to hold a mixture of | architecture-independent and architecture-dependent files. However, | when a directory is entirely composed of architecture-independent | files, it should be located in /usr/share. which is a bit contradicting to the current practice: If it is just a suggestion, then maybe the lintian warning has not right severity "warning" and should be lowered? And are pure python packages (Architecure: all) not covered by the last sentence and should *not* be in /usr/lib/ by policy? What is the best way here, also to explain this in a tutorial to an absolute newcomer? Best regards Ole [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ [2] http://www.astropy.org/affiliated/index.html [3] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wcsaxes/0.3 [4] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87fv738ujq.fsf...@debian.org
