Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-29 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Hubert Chan a écrit : >On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:48:38 +0300, Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think it would be very hard to get /usr/GNUstep added to FHS. > > > /usr/OpenStep ? >For some strange reason, -policy seems to be rather quiet on this issue >this time around. There

Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-29 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:19:30PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > /usr/X11R6 is specified specifically as an option in FHS and was > basically grandfathered in. And it seems Branden thinks that it will > eventually disappear (or at least be replaced by symlinks). > http://lists.debian.org/debian-deve

Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-29 Thread Hubert Chan
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:48:38 +0300, Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:52:48AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: >> * Ask the RMs/QA for an exception due to GNUstep's nature > There is already a precedent in FHS - the /usr/lib/X11R6 directory. > GNUstep is not a dif

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:52:48AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > > * Ask the RMs/QA for an exception due to GNUstep's nature There is already a precedent in FHS - the /usr/lib/X11R6 directory. GNUstep is not a different case, just a less important one. For now. > (I am CC-ing Anton Zinoviev, w

Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Hubert Chan a écrit : > > Have you been successful it making it more FHS compliant? (e.g. moving > Library/Headers to /usr/include, moving Library/Preferences, > Library/Images, etc. to /usr/share, etc.) Is there anything in > particular that caused problems? Well, the best option is to install

Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Steve Langasek a écrit : >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:23:10PM +0200, Eric Heintzmann wrote: > > > [...] > > >I think the FHS itself is clear on this point, that /opt is only for use by >third-party software bundles. > > > FHS 2.3 says add-on and not third-party. This why I talked about /opt >>

Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:23:10PM +0200, Eric Heintzmann wrote: > Actually, there are in Debian (sarge, etch, sid) more than 50 packages > that are parts of the GNUstep Environment. But there is a big issue with > all of them: none are FHS compliant. > The development of GNUstep started a long ti

Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-26 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:23:10 +0200, Eric Heintzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I co-maintain the GNUstep Core packages for more than 2 years, and I > spend a lot of time to find a solution to these problems by moving > files accordingly to FHS, and by symlinking some directories. After > several

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-26 Thread Yavor Doganov
* Eric Heintzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since there is no other maintainer to try to make these packages FHS > compliant, should GNUstep be removed from Debian ? Speaking on behalf of the tiny Bulgarian GNUstep community I would like to ask you (and RMs as well) not to remove GNUstep from

GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-26 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Hi, Actually, there are in Debian (sarge, etch, sid) more than 50 packages that are parts of the GNUstep Environment. But there is a big issue with all of them: none are FHS compliant. The development of GNUstep started a long time before the birth of the File Hierarchy Standard, and since they i