Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
> Hi Danai,
>
> Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm wondering if there's a reason why Publican puts everything in
>> /usr/share/Publican/.  Is it a Red Hat policy to start directories in
>> /usr/share/ with a capital?  If not, would you consider renaming it to
>> its lowercase version (cfr. line 173 of Build.PL in the trunk)?  As an
>> end user I expected the files to be in /usr/share/publican/.
>>
>> On line 14 of publican.spec in the trunk I have noticed the following:
>>
>>  # TODO after beta revert to lower case name
>>
>> Does this mean that "Publican" will be renamed to "publican" in the
>> future, and with it the name in /usr/share/?
>
> This is correct. The use of Publican is so that people can install the
> beta alongside the current shipped version and thus test the beta
> without affecting their ability to do their normal work.
>
> It's a bit of a cheat, but it was the best way I could think of to get
> existing users to give the beta a spin :)
>
>> The reason I ask is because on Debian, most packages use directories
>> in lowercase in /usr/share/.  FYI: on Debian I have therefore opened
>> bug report  #545127 (see [1]); you are free to join, of course.
>>
>>
>> Best regards, and thanks for Publican.
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545127

FYI, the path has been changed to lowercase in SVN in preparation for going live with 1.0.

Cheers, Jeff.

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Jeff Fearn <[email protected]>
Software Engineer
Engineering Operations
Red Hat, Inc
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