On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:56:39AM +0200, Christian Jodar alleged: > Hello, > > During the review of a new package that I submitted [1], there was an issue > with the Perl libraries used by the package. The problem is that this package > contains some libraries that are provided as .pm files. So they are not binary > files and are platform-independant. > > The question is now: Where should go these files? > > According to packaging guidelines [2], we should refer to FHS for this. In > these guidelines [3], /usr/lib should be used for "object files, libraries, > and internal binaries". Then we have some libraries here, so they could go in > /usr/lib. > > But the 22nd note [4] says that "Miscellaneous architecture-independent > application-specific static files and subdirectories must be placed in > /usr/share". And this could be applied also to the .pm files. > > Here we could be lost... > > When reading the 23rd note, we find an example of files that could be in a > subdirectory of /usr/lib: "For example, the perl5 subdirectory for Perl 5 > modules and libraries". And this applies directly to the problem we have here. > > So I'd think that .pm files could be in the lib directories (and that's where > the upstream application wants to find them). But I may be wrong. In any > cases, I think this should be explicitely written somewhere on the Wiki. > > Thank you for your comments, > > Christian Jodar. > > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211726 > [2] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-e1c5548cbbe551c7a43d375c524ab2ea0188557e > [3] > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA > [4] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#FTN.AEN1389 > [5] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#FTN.AEN1394 I'd say in /usr/lib/perl5, as a subpackage. I can possibly imagine /usr/share as acceptable, but within Fedora package management, a subpackage in /usr/lib/perl5 is the most correct. -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California
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