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

[Alexander Sack]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:44:56PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:14:34PM +0100, Alan Woodland wrote:
> > 2009/9/21 Alexander Sack <asac at ubuntu.com>:
> > > 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 would certainly solve it in this case. Would lintian spot if the
> > opposite problem arose? (i.e. marked any, should be all)
> > 
> 
> We committed that now to bzr. I think the tests belong to
> lintian. Maybe it would be nice to have a general check in lintian
> that spits out an error if there is any binary file in a arch all
> package.
> 

m-devscripts should be in unstable now (0.16) ...

 - Alexander