+++ Lars Wirzenius [2013-10-11 18:48 +0100]: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 07:17:32PM +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > > What are the status, the pros and cons here? Is there an attempt to get > > the XDG somehow into the Debian policy? > > There is no active Debian effort to make all our packages to conform > to the XDG directory spec. It is my understanding that the consensus > within Debian is that it is beyond our scope, and is something that's > best done by our upstream projects directly. That way, the results > would be shared by all users of the programs, instead of just the > Debian users of those programs. Having Debian versions of the programs > differ in this from everyone else would create a lot of confusion, and > needlessly cause everyone more support burden than is needed.
I made upstream support XDG when I packaged something recently. He was a bit grumpy because it made linux different from other OSes (it was a java GUI app), but it seemed to me that this was the right thing to do. (The default was to store data in CWD so you ended up with a lot of dirs called 'data' on your disk, instead of one called '.terraintool' in $XDGHOME) This was done upstream, not just for Debian, so conforms with what you've said above, although I wasn't aware of any particular consensus. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- 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/20131011180533.gr32...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
