[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] mozilla-devscripts and binary components

[Alexander Sack]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:14:34PM +0100, Alan Woodland wrote:
> 2009/9/21 Alexander Sack <asac at ubuntu.com>:
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:04:14AM +0100, Alan Woodland wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What's the proper procedure for packages which build binary components
> >> with mozilla-devscripts? I've put together a test bringing
> >> mozilla-traybiff over to pkg-mozext and using mozilla-devscripts, but
> >> it's now placing libtraybiff.so in /usr/share, which is almost
> >> certainly wrong...
> >
> > One idea I discussed with bdrung would be to check whether the binary
> > package is arch all ... if so, put it in /usr/share, otherwise
> > /usr/lib ...
> >
> > For me it sounds like a reasonable approach. what do you think?
> That would certainly solve it in this case. Would lintian spot if the
> opposite problem arose? (i.e. marked any, should be all)
> 

We committed that now to bzr. I think the tests belong to
lintian. Maybe it would be nice to have a general check in lintian
that spits out an error if there is any binary file in a arch all
package.


 - Alexander