Fwd: RFS: Scenic 0.6.0 - Telepresence software for live performances and installations

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:49:38PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 18:06:06 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>>>really depends on how the package uses them. In general, putting them 
>>>into /usr/lib/$package/ should do it, but it really depends on how 
>>>the package uses them. are they used as plugins like in xine, vlc? or 
>>>are they convenience shared libraries, like e.g. in openoffice?
>>>
>>>where do upstream's installation scripts install them?
>>
>> As quoted above, it is normal shared libraries which upstream simply 
>> consider immature for public use.
>
>that's fair.
>
>> Personally I suspect that as such we really should treat them as 
>> normal public shared libraries anyway for Debian packaging
>
>well, I suspect upstream considers them immature and instable for a 
>reason, no?

Sure - what I challenged was not the fact that it is unstable, but if 
perhaps we as distribution might have other concerns tied to our 
packaging upgrade mechanisms.



>> (as I suspect we might run into similar packaging upgrade problems no 
>> matter how stable upstram consider the files), but I might be unaware 
>> of other acceptable approaches.
>>
>> Upstream install the files below /usr/lib/scenic/
>
>the obvious approach: just leave them there and be done with it. what 
>problem do you try to solve?

First I try to understand if there _is_ a problem :-)

What triggered my concern was those lintian warnings that I mentioned in 
the other subthread.


  - Jonas

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