[Gnumed-devel] Re: Packages

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, David Grant wrote:

> About the debian packages, I forget why was some of the *.py files going
> into site-packages and some of it in /usr/share?
I repeat: The only reason is that these packages are not ready yet (which
is the reason why the are not in an apt-get - able archive ...)
The goal is to put them all *nicely* under site-packages.  This "nicely"
is the problem why it takes some time.  To my philosophy in this:  It might
seem more pragmatic to just put all the stuff under site-packages to get
something working anyhow instead of trying to polish something.  But my
packages currently work as well but (obviousely - because you are asking)
leave some problems open which should be adressed.  IMHO this fits the alpha
state of this software nicely and helps pointing out future problems.

> How can putting things in /usr/share be official debian policy?  I can
> see /usr/lib/gnumed but not /usr/share, according to the FHS.
We are (at least I am) talking here about architecture independant data like
bitmaps etc. which can not be found by any path.  Python modules are searched
along PYTHON_PATH and do not need any extra variable which has to be
configured because it is by default under /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages
where in the end all Python modules will be moved.  Once the package is
on the official Debian site you might bother me with bug reports if I
did something wrong here.

Kind regards

         Andreas.