On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 19:11 +0530, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> Wrt. the GNU-Standards, packages with "private"
executables in
> in /usr/lib qualify as packaging bugs.
>
> In Fedora reality however, most packages shipping "private" executables
> in /usr/lib inherited this either from their RH packaging history
> or from their packagers/upstream's ignorance/unawareness on the
> GNU-Standards.
I have a package, 'bouml', which invokes private executables placed
inside %{_libdir}/bouml/. Is this serious enough to patch the package
No, there are
plenty of packages which do so as well ;-)
or try to convince upstream to change?
If I were you, I'd
try to do so. If what you say applies, their package
simply doesn't comply to the GNU-Standards.
The package is somewhat big,
and I would not like to patch it if it was not really needed.
I don't know this
package, but if they are using automake, such a change
should be pretty easy and straight forward to implement.
Ralf