[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: Moving Resources to
/usr/share properly
Yavor Doganov
yavor at doganov.org
Thu Nov 16 06:40:06 CET 2006
Hubert Chan wrote:
>
> In general, for already existing packages, I (unofficially)
> recommend only moving the Resources directory when the Resources
> directory is large, or if someone complains about Resources being
> under /usr/lib.
That's a relief. I thought that moving the Resources was the next
phase of the FHS-compliance plan. In that case, I won't touch
projectmanager.app.
> Since the bug only affects upgrading, moving the Resources directory
> for new packages shouldn't hurt anything.
Certainly.
> The only problem with the preinst snippet that I'm aware of is that
> AFAICT any old files that are in the Resources directory won't get
> removed if they are no longer in the new package. But this probably
> doesn't affect most packages.
In the future, if we adopt an official (or semi-official) policy for
this, we'll have to fix that behaviour.
> (And for those who are wondering, you still should use the
> debian/rules snippet in addition to the preinst snippet. The
> preinst snippet isn't a replacement for the debian/rules snippet.)
Of course, that's exactly what I was trying to say.
Thanks for your reply.
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