Bug#545127: Policy of capitalisation of packagename in /usr/share/?
Ok, thank you for the clarification, Steve! Best regards -- Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#545127: Policy of capitalisation of packagename in /usr/share/?
Dear all I recently posted bug #545127 (see [1]) as I noticed that the package `publican' stores some shared files in /usr/share/Publican/ but stores its documentation in /usr/share/doc/publican/. As an end user, I expected /usr/share/publican/, given that the package name is `publican'. However, the upstream package uses /usr/share/Publican/. The Debian Maintainer (Mikahil Gusarov, in CC) does not wish to change the upstream source without a good reason, and that is perfectly understandable. The Debian Policy [2] has two places in which it says something about /usr/share/: sections 8.2 (Shared library support files) and 10.7.3 (Configuration Files Behavior). However, according to Mikhail both sections are not applicable, either because there are currently no shared packages or because `publican' has no ./configure. [Correct me if I'm wrong, Mikhail.] Mikhail suggests to change some of the wording in the policy under 10.7.3 (see [1]). I see a few options here: - the policy does not cover this issue, and it is up to the the Debian Maintainer to decide how the directory in /usr/share/ is called; - the policy requires that directories in /usr/share/ be exactly /usr/share/package-name/. Given that package-name must use lowercase letters (Debian Policy 5.6.1). Most packages already do this, but this would affect some packages like X11 or PolicyKit, as Mikhail Gusarov noted; - the policy recommends /usr/share/package-name/, unless it is too difficult to implement. I would be most grateful if anyone could clarify this situation. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545127 [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ Best regards -- Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#545127: Policy of capitalisation of packagename in /usr/share/?
Twas brillig at 15:08:10 05.09.2009 UTC+02 when da...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: DS The Debian Policy [2] has two places in which it says something DS about /usr/share/: sections 8.2 (Shared library support files) and DS 10.7.3 (Configuration Files Behavior). However, according to DS Mikhail both sections are not applicable, either because there are DS currently no shared packages or because `publican' has no DS ./configure. [Correct me if I'm wrong, Mikhail.] Let me elaborate a bit. Publican is pure-Perl application with arch-indep data stored under /usr/share/Publican. 8.2 talks about shared library support files, and recommends using /usr/share/pkgname in order to avoid conflicts between libfooN and libfooM. 10.7.3 talks about `package-configure' auxiliary files for maintainer scripts, Publican does not use such thing. 10.7.3 refers to /usr/share/package and /usr/lib/package, though there is no requirement to use such directories, so I'd change it to say `arch-indep or arch-dep directories used by package'. -- http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/ pgpRLuS0v6p98.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#545127: Policy of capitalisation of packagename in /usr/share/?
Hi Danai, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:08:10PM +0200, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote: I recently posted bug #545127 (see [1]) as I noticed that the package `publican' stores some shared files in /usr/share/Publican/ but stores its documentation in /usr/share/doc/publican/. As an end user, I expected /usr/share/publican/, given that the package name is `publican'. However, the upstream package uses /usr/share/Publican/. The Debian Maintainer (Mikahil Gusarov, in CC) does not wish to change the upstream source without a good reason, and that is perfectly understandable. The Debian Policy [2] has two places in which it says something about /usr/share/: sections 8.2 (Shared library support files) and 10.7.3 (Configuration Files Behavior). However, according to Mikhail both sections are not applicable, either because there are currently no shared packages or because `publican' has no ./configure. [Correct me if I'm wrong, Mikhail.] Mikhail suggests to change some of the wording in the policy under 10.7.3 (see [1]). I see a few options here: - the policy does not cover this issue, and it is up to the the Debian Maintainer to decide how the directory in /usr/share/ is called; - the policy requires that directories in /usr/share/ be exactly /usr/share/package-name/. Given that package-name must use lowercase letters (Debian Policy 5.6.1). Most packages already do this, but this would affect some packages like X11 or PolicyKit, as Mikhail Gusarov noted; - the policy recommends /usr/share/package-name/, unless it is too difficult to implement. I would be most grateful if anyone could clarify this situation. Policy does indeed not require that directory names under /usr/share follow a particular pattern. Namespace conflicts are resolved ad-hoc, generally the same way that package namespace conflicts are; and in the case of a directory that's a capitalized form of the package name, there should be no namespace collision because package names must all be lowercase, so nothing else could claim precedence for this directory name. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
