Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> writes: > 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.
Isn't that the same case with the FHS? To bring an example here from my ongoing packaging projects: IRAF [1] uses /iraf/ as the root path for its directory structure as standard, and they are probably not going to change this. So, with Debian deviating from everyone else here would probably also create a lot of confusion; however I will ofcourse obey the policy here. Also, the XDG is made to *unify* the structure, not just between programs, but also between (Desktop Linux/Unix) platforms. > Please do contribute to any upstream projects that interest you to add > support for XDG, but don't try to make it mandatory in Debian. I don't mean it as a strong requirement (yet); but couldn't this be included in the policy as recommendation and/or goal? Best regards Ole [1] http://bugs.debian.org/690531 -- 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/87hacn633a....@news.ole.ath.cx
