Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Closes: #731810
+ * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
+ Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
+ Closes: #741304
* Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
- -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:08:18 +0100
+ -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2014 22:14:14 +0200
debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
exceptions to the FHS apply:
<enumlist>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The FHS requirement that architecture-independent
+ application-specific static files be located in
+ <file>/usr/share</file> is relaxed to a suggestion.
+
+ In particular, a subdirectory of <file>/usr/lib</file> may
+ be used by a package (or a collection of packages) to hold a
+ mixture of architecture-independent and
+ architecture-dependent files. However, when a directory is
+ entirely composed of architecture-independent files, it
+ should be located in <file>/usr/share</file>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
<item>
<p>
The optional rules related to user specific
<chapt> The checklist
+<sect id="3.9.6.0"> Version 3.9.6.0
+<p>
+
+Released xxx, 2014.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>9.1</tag>
+ <item> The FHS is relaxed to allow a subdirectory of <file>/usr/lib</file>
+ to hold a mixture of architecture-independent and architecture-dependent
+ files, though directories entirely composed of architecture-independent files
+ should be located in <file>/usr/share</file>.
+ </item>
+</taglist></p>
+
<sect id="3.9.5.0"> Version 3.9.5.0
<p>