On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:04:57PM +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > 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?
FHS compliance is required for Debian to be able to integrate upstream projects into a working operating system at all. XDG is mainly about making user's home directories cleaner: a worthy goal, and one I agree with, but not necessary for Debian to do. FHS also built on long-standing Unix tradition, and most programs already support it, either out of the box or by suitable configuration at build time. XDG is gaining traction only slowly, and mainly in software written using GUI toolkits. > 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. There are exceptions to upstream being FHS compliant. They're fairly rare. > > 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? I would object to that. It is not Debian's job to make these changes, or to make sure software we package follows the XDG: it doesn't provide great benefit, but does (at this point in time) require too much effort. I'm all for the XDG directory specification. I'm all for helping upstreams support it. I do not want Debian package maintainers to spend time doing it as part of their Debian duties. We have much more important problems to solve. -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- 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/20131011200314.GV17839@holywood
