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

Alan Woodland alan.woodland at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 15:59:48 UTC 2009


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)

Alan



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