Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey all,
Just finished a weekend long Debian Bug Squashing Party here in NYC. I discussed with a few Debian Developers how best to fit Pd's files into Debian Policy. This is what we came up with. Let me know what you guys think, and whether there are other things to add.
* While .pd files are plain text, they are really like scripts mostof all, and should be treated that way. That means they should go into /usr/lib/pd rather than the data dir /usr/share/pd *help patches are just Pd patches, which are just scripts, so it is also ok for them to be included in /usr/lib/pd. * Help patches are not really useful to read outside of Pd so the help patches should not go into `/usr/share/doc' * HTML, PDFs?, .txt, and READMEs? should go into /usr/share/doc like any other package
i guess this pretty much expresses the current state of the puredata package, no?
one issue that seems to have been untouched: what about "examples"? e.g. Gem has a largish collection of example Pd patches, which traditionally go into /usr/share/doc (and are then symlinked to /usr/lib/pd to make Pd find it) i still very much like this, and for me it seems like it is in accordance to what other packages do: about 10% of the packages installed on my machine have a /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/ directory, which is often filled with rcfiles and/or programming examples. e.g. loads of python modules will put example code into this directory.
mgasdr IOhannes