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

[Jeffrey Fearn]

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

Cheers, Jeff.


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