[Pkg-leofs-devel] Bug#748343: erlang-cowboy installs to /usr/lib/erlang/lib

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

Thanks for your report.
If your point is correct, we will need to change the install path of all
Erlang packages. And this is not just Debian, other distributions are similar.

Sergei, how do you think about this? Could you comment?

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

> Package: erlang-cowboy
> Version: 0.8.6+dfsg1-1
> X-Debbugs-CC: packaging at rabbitmq.com
>
> The package "erlang-cowboy" installs a specific version of Cowboy
> (currently 0.8.6) into the system-wide OTP directory.
>
> This means that any Erlang application gets that version of Cowboy in
> preference to any other it might have installed, probably breaking it.
> RabbitMQ's web stomp plugin is an example of such an application.
>
> This is a bad idea for any Erlang library, and it's a particularly bad
> idea for Cowboy as it has a rather fast-moving API.
>
> Cheers, Simon
>
> --
> Simon MacMullen
> RabbitMQ, Pivotal


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