Re: HOWTO: making a package which compiles fine on slink and potato

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 18:11 +0200 1999-10-14, Bjoern Brill wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > ifeq ("$(shell dh_testversion 2.0.40 && echo potato)", "potato")
> > DOC = usr/share/doc
> > MAN = usr/share/man
> > LIB = usr/share/lib
>
> The name 'LIB' contains a dangerous suggestion, because:
> /usr/lib/perl       -> /usr/lib/perl
> /usr/lib/dict       -> /usr/share/dict
> /usr/lib/<datafile> -> /usr/share/lib/<datafile>
> better call it DAT.

/usr/share/lib is not FHS conformant, architecture independant data 
either goes in /usr/share/<package> or a single data file can be 
placed in /usr/share/misc.

> btw: any suggestions about the FHS preferred /var/lib -> /var/state ?

Don't use /var/state, it's not in FHS 2.1.
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