[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] mozilla-devscripts and binary components

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:54:55PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:04:14AM +0100, Alan Woodland wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What's the proper procedure for packages which build binary components
> > with mozilla-devscripts? I've put together a test bringing
> > mozilla-traybiff over to pkg-mozext and using mozilla-devscripts, but
> > it's now placing libtraybiff.so in /usr/share, which is almost
> > certainly wrong...
> 
> One idea I discussed with bdrung would be to check whether the binary
> package is arch all ... if so, put it in /usr/share, otherwise
> /usr/lib ...
> 
> For me it sounds like a reasonable approach. what do you think?

That relies on the maintainer putting the correct thing in
debian/control. Wouldn't it be better to help him and:
1. install things in /usr/lib when there is a binary file
2. choke when the binary file is put in a arch: all package.

Mike