Dear mentors,
I am currently working (together with Danya Alexeyevsky) on Debian
packages for a nice little programming language called Io
(<http://www.iolanguage.com/>, ITP #454970). [*]
This is the first set of packages which I intend to officially add to
Debian. As it is also a rather big package, I've been spending a lot of
time with fixing various lintian and linda warnings. I'd be glad if you
could provide me with a little info and your opinions about the
following problem.
Io can be extended by addons. Addons can contain Io code, or a shared
library, or even their own resources. The Io interpreter expects addons
to have a fixed folder structure, with the root folder having the name
of the addon. The io interpreter will search for addons in
/usr/lib/io/addons/, but other folders can be added at runtime.
There are three main problems I am experiencing:
1. Some addons' shared libraries have dependencies to other addons.
Naturally, shared libraries in
/usr/lib/io/addons/SomeAddon/_build/dll won't be found by the
linker, so those libraries contain RPATH entries. I am aware of
the RPATH issue but I didn't an easy solution to this problem. The
only thing I could do was to make the RPATH entries relative
(using $ORIGIN). Is that an acceptable solution?
2. Flux, an OpenGL-based GUI addon, contains a lot of image and font
resources. Those, of course, end up in /usr/lib and produce
lintian warnings such as "image-file-in-usr-lib". What am I
supposed to do about it? The design of putting code and data into
the same addon directory is not 'broken', it just differs from FHS
philosophy.
3. The same addon contains .ttf files from various free fonts like
Vera. Those files are duplicates of the files in the corresponding
Debian packages, but they're renamed and put into a special folder
structure. Is it a) necessary to replace those files by symlinks
and b) can that be done automatically?
Thanks in advance for your responses!
Regards,
Jonas Eschenburg
[*] Package sources can be retrieved with "darcs get
http://tnlgame.net/darcs/iolanguage-debian/";. Binary x86 packages and
sources downloadable at <http://tnlgame.net/downloads/io/>
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