Bug#409335: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#409335: cupsys: packages must not ship directories under /usr/local

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On 2/2/07, Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch> wrote:
> tags 409335 patch
> thanks
>
> Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
>
> > The change requested in 408154 is a policy violation.  Packages are not
> > allowed to ship any directories under the /usr/local heirarchy; they must be
> > created in the postinst and removed in the prerm.
> >
> > This bug now blocks getting the fix for RC bug 403703 into etch, so please
> > revert the change.
>
> Instead of just reverting, you could also apply this simple patch:
> +
> +  * Use dh_usrlocal to install files in /usr/local in the maintainer
> +    scripts, instead of shipping them in the deb

Unless I misunderstood the man page, dh_usrlocal is meant for software
that builds into /usr/local, which we don't. We're only adding a local
directory in case others need it to install their own PPD.

We probably should not ship any directory in /usr/local or /opt
anyhow. It should be up to the third-party or local applications that
actually supply the PPD to create them.

Even worse, those PPD directories are not only used by CUPS; other
PostScript applications and printer daemons use them too. The proper
solution would be to add those directories to the filesystem skeleton
used by debian-installer and to the FHS specs.

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Martin-Éric Racine
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