Hi,
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:46:24PM +0200, Stefan Husmann wrote:
> > > Do you know what about the program violated Arch's policy?
> >
> > I think that the original maintainer thought it had to
> > reside in /usr/share/conkeror/. Per hier(7), /usr/share is
> > only for "application data, that can be shared among
> > different architectures of the same OS," so a compiled
> > binary is likely to be a violation of that.
>
> I was the former maintainer, and I included the binary, but
> it always has been a thorn in my eye. Thanks to Ivy, who
> figured out the solution, it is no longer.
>
> BTW the packaging philosophy not to have architecture dependent
> files under /usr/share is from FHS[1]. Arch developers try to follow
> given standards where they can.
JFTR: It's the very same for Debian. In the Debian package I ship this:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11592 Aug 4 2010
/usr/lib/conkeror/conkeror-spawn-helper*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Mar 3 2011
/usr/share/conkeror/conkeror-spawn-helper ->
../../lib/conkeror/conkeror-spawn-helper*
Kind regards, Axel
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