[publican-list] Suggesting /usr/share/publican instead of /usr/share/Publican

[Jeffrey Fearn]

Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
 > Hi Danai,
 >
 > Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:
 >> Hi
 >>
 >> I'm wondering if there's a reason why Publican puts everything in
 >> /usr/share/Publican/.  Is it a Red Hat policy to start directories in
 >> /usr/share/ with a capital?  If not, would you consider renaming it to
 >> its lowercase version (cfr. line 173 of Build.PL in the trunk)?  As an
 >> end user I expected the files to be in /usr/share/publican/.
 >>
 >> On line 14 of publican.spec in the trunk I have noticed the following:
 >>
 >>  # TODO after beta revert to lower case name
 >>
 >> Does this mean that "Publican" will be renamed to "publican" in the
 >> future, and with it the name in /usr/share/?
 >
 > This is correct. The use of Publican is so that people can install the
 > beta alongside the current shipped version and thus test the beta
 > without affecting their ability to do their normal work.
 >
 > It's a bit of a cheat, but it was the best way I could think of to get
 > existing users to give the beta a spin :)
 >
 >> The reason I ask is because on Debian, most packages use directories
 >> in lowercase in /usr/share/.  FYI: on Debian I have therefore opened
 >> bug report  #545127 (see [1]); you are free to join, of course.
 >>
 >>
 >> Best regards, and thanks for Publican.
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545127

FYI, the path has been changed to lowercase in SVN in preparation for 
going live with 1.0.

Cheers, Jeff.

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