On Fri, Aug 21 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes:
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:47:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>>> It looks good to me as a first step. Seconded, with the caveat that we
>>> probably don't want to release this with Policy until we've hammered
>>> out any specific restrictions on how those directories can be used
>>> first.
>
>> I think the only specific restriction needed is already spelled out -
>> that packages can only install to the triplet matching their own
>> architecture. Are there other restrictions that you think are called
>> for?
>
> The current restriction is specific to libraries. Don't we need to say
> that you can't put *any* files into any triplet directory that isn't for
> your package architecture?
Hmm. My first read was that one could not put anything that was
not a library in these directories, but perhaps it should be stated
explicitly.
manoj
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