Any changes before next upload?

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:03:15 +0200
Cesare Falco <cesare.falco at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot to cc the list as usual... ;-)

> > So 11.10 is sticking with 0.141? Any details of what you have in
> > mind?
> no, 0.143 has just been uploaded, the debian/ directory coming from my
> "old" ubuntu-specific tree.
> 
> What I *need* is the handling of dependencies on sdlmame/xmame,
> in a way that will make both Debian' and Ubuntu's apt happy. Some

Can ubuntu carry an empty meta package to fulfil it? (or only build a
metapackage on ubuntu?). I've no idea about the (im)practical pain
nature of this :)

> What I would like to discuss with the rest of the team are mainly
> the configuration options/files and the directories layout, the
> bigger issue being I'd like to use /usr/local/games/ instead
> of /usr/share/games/ as base path.

As a search path? You're not allowed to install into it.

> When I started packaging (sdl)Mame back in 2007, I understood /usr/
> is intended for the package system, anything installed but by apt
> should go to /usr/local/ instead (remember Roms are still copyrighted

This is what the FHS says:
> /usr/local : Local hierarchy
> 
> Purpose
> 
> The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when
> installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being
> overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for
> programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but
> not found in /usr.
> 
> Locally installed software must be placed within /usr/local rather
> than /usr unless it is being installed to replace or upgrade software
> in /usr. [27]

You can find a copy of the fhs
in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs-2.3.txt.gz .

> and we can't package even the freely available ones, which must be
> downloaded from the Mame site).
> 
> I haven't been looking at the standards since then, and things could
> well have changed, but my strong feeling is that we should stick

FHS has not :)

> with /usr/local/ in the configuration files both for roms and
> anything that is not packaged at present (samples, cheat files etc.).

It would be nice to search multiple paths if possible (although i'm not
sure how roms fit into /usr/local; under ./share?

thanks,
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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