[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#400005: Installs files in /var/lib/mailman in violation of FHS

Lionel Elie Mamane lionel at mamane.lu
Thu Nov 23 13:03:45 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:41:08PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

> 1:2.1.9-3 will make it /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email, which is
> still suboptimal (the non-compiled files should be in /usr/share,
> being architecture-independent), and may technically still be a
> violation, although not a "gross" one, but more difficult to achieve
> (the files are compiled at install/upgrade time; the compiled
> versions must be in /usr/lib;

POX on #debian-python informs me that .pyc files are
architecture-independent, too. So we can safely move the whole bunch
(directories Mailman, pythonlib, ...) to /usr/share/mailman/.

We should also move bin, cron, scripts. Only mail should stay in
/usr/lib.

-- 
Lionel




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