Manoj (Supercite undone): > Christian Schwarz: > > IMHO, /usr/local/src is the place for the sysadmin, > > /usr/src is the place for packages. > > Not only is this a standard that we supposedly follow, it is > also existing practice, as demonstrated by the kernel-* packages and > pcmcia-modules. Any gratituos change may well break these packages > that have (correctly) followed the standards.
Those packages are used by a minority of users, I think. Users who do much development work are particularly likely not to have used them and also to have used /usr/src themselves. IMO, since it's fairly easy for us to avoid messing these people up, we should make a subdirectory in /usr/src as Karl Hegbloom suggests. Furthermore, noone has yet to my knowledge come up with a good argument as to why we should distribute source code in .deb files, when we have a much better scheme for source code. I won't be held responsible for the braindamage that results when dpkg is used to install source code which is then build in situ. I'd like to see a policy statement that at least discourages distribution of source code in .deb's. Ian.
