Hi, for one of my packages (astropy), I am currently in discussion with upstream on whether the XDG rules shoule be applied [1]. I am arguing there that for a new software, it would be better to follow this standard.
The XDG basedir specification [2] basically defines where user specific configuration files, data, and cache files should be placed. However, I found that a lot of software on Debian seems to be not XDG compliant yet, and I am wondering if there is any attempt to change this. XDG compliant seem to be mostly GUI oriented programs (like LO, VLC or the desktop environments), while classic command line programs (with the shells on first place) seem to ignore the standard. What are the status, the pros and cons here? Is there an attempt to get the XDG somehow into the Debian policy? Best regards Ole [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/astropy-dev/YiTZl43CAg8/AwSZSONpQdcJ [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pprb682b....@news.ole.ath.cx
