On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Brian S. Julin wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > > > libgii Includes file, null, stdin, other inputs available every
> > > > libgii-dev
> >
> > You mean includes to -dev - right ?
>
> Debian library packages are done thusly as a matter of policy:
>
> bri@sublime:~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/libltdl3.list
> /.
> /usr
> /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3.0.0
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/share/doc/libltdl3
> /usr/share/doc/libltdl3/README
> /usr/share/doc/libltdl3/copyright
> /usr/share/doc/libltdl3/changelog.gz
> /usr/share/doc/libltdl3/changelog.Debian.gz
> /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3
>
> bri@sublime:~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/libltdl3-dev.list
> /.
> /usr
> /usr/include
> /usr/include/ltdl.h
> /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/libltdl.la
> /usr/lib/libltdl.a
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/lib/libltdl.so
> /usr/share/doc/libltdl3-dev
>
> That last .so is just a symlink.
>
> > Yeah - we usually don't install them, except for the cube, but it would be
> > good. Where does one install such stuff ?
> > /usr/games and /usr/doc ?
>
> Under Debian "example sources" go in /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples and
> must be zipped.
What says the LSB (Linux Standard Base), what should be stored where?
That should be a good point to start thinking about the
directory-structure we should use for packages.
CU,
Christoph Egger
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
