FWIW, tackling FHS compliance is one of the things I have in mind as being suitable for a metadata 2.0 extension.
Because Mac OS X and Windows just bundle (almost) everything into the application directory, FHS concepts simply don't map properly, so the current best FHS compliant solution is to use the "data" scheme path, FHS subdirectories and flag the project as Linux specific in the docs (or just not publish it on PyPI). Alternatively, cross platform Python code sometimes just ignores FHS compliance and bundles everything in with the module code (using pkgutil.get_data to retrieve it at runtime). Getting such packages ready for distro inclusion then ends up being quite a pain :P Cheers, Nick.
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