Hi. I am packaging an application for which the original source installs itself all into the same directory. In order to comply with the FHS, I have split the application into pieces beneath /usr/lib, /usr/share and /usr/bin. So the application can find data where it expects to, I am making a symbolic link from /usr/lib/snappea/... to /usr/share/snappea/....
I am currently setting up said link by including a snappea.links file in my debian/ directory, and everything works fine. However, if a user on a non-debian system unpacks the sources and types "make install", the link will not be created since it is being made by the dpkg installation procedure. Is there a clean way of having "make install" create the symbolic link and having dpkg-buildpackage ignore the "make install" link and refer to snappea.links instead? Is this something I should even be concerned about? Thanks! Ben.
