On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:38 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey all,
Just finished a weekend long Debian Bug Squashing Party here in
NYC. I
discussed with a few Debian Developers how best to fit Pd's files
into
Debian Policy. This is what we came up with. Let me know what you
guys
think, and whether there are other things to add.
* While .pd files are plain text, they are really like scripts
most
of all, and should be treated that way. That means they should go
into
/usr/lib/pd rather than the data dir /usr/share/pd
*help patches are just Pd patches, which are just scripts, so it
is
also ok for them to be included in /usr/lib/pd.
* Help patches are not really useful to read outside of Pd so the
help patches should not go into `/usr/share/doc'
* HTML, PDFs?, .txt, and READMEs? should go into /usr/share/doc
like
any other package
i guess this pretty much expresses the current state of the puredata
package, no?
one issue that seems to have been untouched: what about "examples"?
e.g.
Gem has a largish collection of example Pd patches, which
traditionally
go into /usr/share/doc (and are then symlinked to /usr/lib/pd to
make Pd
find it)
i still very much like this, and for me it seems like it is in
accordance to what other packages do: about 10% of the packages
installed on my machine have a /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/
directory, which is often filled with rcfiles and/or programming
examples. e.g. loads of python modules will put example code into this
directory.
FYI: was mostly discussing this stuff in the context of the libdir/
dirlib approach of having all the files related to a library in a self-
contained folder. I believe this is a good approach for Pd, so I was
thinking about how it can fit into Debian Policy, which is going to be
helpful for UNIX distros in general.
So I am thinking now that we should package libraries as libdirs in /
usr/lib/pd, then symlink things to other appropriate places. Then in
the Pd implementation, we can count on libdirs always being there, but
from the Debian side, everything will be accessible from the right
places.
While I think that help patches don't belong in /usr/share/doc/
<package>, I think it could make sense to put examples into /usr/share/
pd or maybe /usr/share/doc/pd. AFAIK, the stuff in /usr/share/doc/ is
meant to be readable plain text, like via less, a web browser, text
editor, or something like that. Pd patches are not, so it might not
make much sense to put them in /usr/share/<package> or /usr/share/doc/
<package>. It doesn't really hurt either, so symlinking stuff to /usr/
share/doc/<package> seems workable.
.hc
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