Hello,
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:10AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
New clarified language. Packaging Guidelines:
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In general, your package should own all of the directories that it
creates but the situation is more complex than in the case of files
because many packages put files into the same directories.
the second half of the sentence really confuses me.
I suggest to put period after "creates".
The rule of
thumb is that your package should own all of the directories it creates
repeated again?
except those owned by packages which your package depends on.
ok
*However, there are times when you should own more than this.*
Again, this puzzles me. I would say:
"In certain situations, a directory may be owned by two packages.
Typically, more than one package has files in a common directory, but
none of them requires another of them--in that case, each of them
shall own the directory."
If the directory
hierarchy your package is located in may change due to updates of
packages you depend on, then you need to take care to own those pieces
of the hierarchy.
This might be correct, but I'm not able to decipher it; perhaps I
have not encountered such a situation yet.
[snip examples]
In any case, there should never be any unowned directories after a
package is uninstalled from the system.
Again, I would rephrase. Something like:
"In any case, a system may never contain a file owned by an installed
package whoch would lay below an unowned directory.
(That's because such a directory would remain on the system after the
corresponding package has been removed.)"
I hope my comments help.
Have a nice day,
Stepan