Re: /usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

2003-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: all the footnote says is that imake Does The Right Thing, which is why it is exempted. See, now I read it as imake doesn't quite do the right thing, really, but it's imake, so

Re: /usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

2003-04-14 Thread Daniel Martin
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: all the footnote says is that imake Does The Right Thing, which is why it is exempted. See, now I read it as imake doesn't quite do the right thing, really, but it's imake, so we'll let it slide - fixing it everywhere is officially deemed not

/usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

2003-04-13 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! There is a package I adopted (bugsx), which uses Imake. However the previous maintainer didn't use upstream makefile install{,.man} targets (which put the binary and manpage in /usr/X11R6/{man,bin}), and instead installed them manually into /usr/{share/man,bin}. My question is: how to

Re: /usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

2003-04-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Marcin Owsiany wrote: My question is: how to interpret policy section 12.8.7. Is to mean: All packages using imake should puth files where imake-generated makefile would put them, period. or Everything should go to /usr/{bin,share/man}, but if your package uses imake, you're