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On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:31:30 +0000 Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:51:18 +0000 (GMT) > Peter Lloyd-Jones <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > As you know I am a model railroad enthusiast. Currently we tend to > > let the user store the programme Java Model Railroad Interface in > > his home directory. Program data should not be under a user home if other users are going to need to run it - you, as upstream, cannot make that decision, so you have to assume that the package will be multi-user in order to have the package working in standard distributions. Installations in a user home directory can be retained for testing or to have a stable version in /usr and a debug/unstable version somewhere else. (Most other packages would put that one into /usr/local and your package should also support that usage.) For more information on how things should be packaged for the main distributions, most have their own docs. The Debian ones are at: http://www.uk.debian.org/devel/ Also, find a similar package and follow that as an example - at least as a starting point. Generally, as an upstream, if you follow the filesystem rules of Debian, the package will fit in with all the other distros too. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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