Re: pybuild (Re: image-file-in-usr-lib)

2015-05-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On 11/05/15 08:03, Ole Streicher wrote: > What is the rationale between having all this in /usr/lib? Conversely, it might be informative to consider the rationale for /usr/lib and /usr/share being separate: """ This hierarchy is intended to be shareable among all architecture platforms of a given

Re: pybuild (Re: image-file-in-usr-lib)

2015-05-11 Thread Ole Streicher
Charles Plessy writes: > indeed, this is a recent change in the Policy (see > bugs.debian.org/741304). Putting pure python packages (Architecture: all) into /usr/lib is IMO still not coved by the Debian Policy. > Probably Lintian is lagging behind. Maybe somebody can ping bug #415558 ? I'll do

Re: pybuild (Re: image-file-in-usr-lib)

2015-05-11 Thread Ole Streicher
Matthias Klose writes: > The FHS never talks about putting *code* into /usr/share. So pybuild > is right from my point of view to put it in /usr/lib. I think the Debian Policy is quite clear here: | [...] However, when a directory is entirely composed of | architecture-independent files, it shou

Re: pybuild (Re: image-file-in-usr-lib)

2015-05-11 Thread Matthias Klose
On 05/11/2015 09:03 AM, Ole Streicher wrote: > Ben Finney writes: >> Ole Streicher writes: >> Installing the non-program files to ‘/usr/share/foopackage/images/’ (for >> example) is simple enough, using ‘dh_install’. > > I am using pybuild, and I am wondering why it doesn't do this > automatical

Re: pybuild (Re: image-file-in-usr-lib)

2015-05-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:03:53AM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : > > The Debian Policy [4] states (9.1.1): > > | 1. The FHS requirement that architecture-independent application- > | specific static files be located in /usr/share is relaxed to a > | suggestion. In particular, a subdirectory of /

Re: pybuild (Re: image-file-in-usr-lib)

2015-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
Ole Streicher writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Ole Streicher writes: > > Installing the non-program files to ‘/usr/share/foopackage/images/’ (for > > example) is simple enough, using ‘dh_install’. > > I am using pybuild, and I am wondering why it doesn't do this > automatically (maybe with some

pybuild (Re: image-file-in-usr-lib)

2015-05-11 Thread Ole Streicher
Ben Finney writes: > Ole Streicher writes: > Installing the non-program files to ‘/usr/share/foopackage/images/’ (for > example) is simple enough, using ‘dh_install’. I am using pybuild, and I am wondering why it doesn't do this automatically (maybe with some help)? Generally: pybuild seem to i