Control: severity -1 normal On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, ca...@allfreemail.net wrote:
This is likely some violation of debian policy ยง9.1.1 [1] and FHS [2], and also goes against user expectations of pixmaps being placed in /usr/share/pixmaps/
I'm not the maintainer of mnemosyne, just a user of it who would like it to be included in trixie, but I don't think this is a policy violation.
Neither the FHS for Policy says anything about /usr/share/pixmaps. FHS does say that "Any program or package which contains or requires data that doesn't need to be modified should store that data in /usr/share (or /usr/local/share, if installed locally)." but Policy 9.1.1 explicitly downgrades that to a suggestion: "The FHS requirement that architecture-independent application-specific static files be located in /usr/share is relaxed to a suggestion." Unlike the root directory, FHS doesn't forbid creating extra subdirectories of /usr except for "large software packages", which is obviously intended to prevent use of /usr as a replacement for /opt, and not to prevent creation of other extra directories there.
Since this isn't a policy violation, it can't be a severe policy violation, and so I've downgraded the bug to "normal" severity. I agree that there's a bug here, but it's not release-critical.
-- Ben Harris
