On Dec 1, 2009, at 3:22 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Additionally, I'd like to Debianize the directory names (i.e. /
usr/lib/puredata)
What's un-Debian about /usr/lib/pd?
the package name is not "pd".
the package name used to be "pd"
alternatively, the package name could be changed, if there is no
nameclash.
it was changed to "puredata", which seems to be meant as the specific
name (e.g. pd-vanilla).
i think the idea is, that several packages (puredata, PdX), can be
installed either side-by-side or exclusively, and packages depending
on
"pd" (which the various flavours "provide") will still have their
dependencies fullfilled.
however, i don't see a really compelling reason why things should be
moved from /usr/lib/pd to /usr/lib/puredata.
it might be sufficient to symlink from /u/l/puredata to /u/l/pd for
now.
or the other way round.
/usr/lib/pd should be kept.
ah, and there is a tool to test for compliance with debian rules:
lintian
you can make it very picky (telling it to show not only errors and
ordinary warnings, but also "pedantic" warnings and "experimental"
inconsistencies).
the puredata package i posted on mentors (still pending a mentor
though), is lintian clean in this regard, even though it installs into
/u/l/pd
i wouldn't change anything without a compelling reason.
The compelling reason is that 'pd' means multiple packages 'puredata',
'pd-extended', and perhaps others. Where is the harm in changing
this? Its a trivial patch, its not a directory that people should be
ever changing since its managed by the packages. If it causes
problems, we can change it back. Here's an example:
desiredata: /usr/lib/desiredata
puredata: /usr/lib/pd
pd-extended: /usr/lib/pd-extended
libraries install path: /usr/lib/pd-externals
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