[Fedora-packaging] Who owns /usr/share/locale/<lang>?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Sep 6 15:13:00 UTC 2005
Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said:
> > > Who is supposed to own /usr/share/locale/<lang>?
> >
> > There's a bug open on this. The problem is, of course, it's
> > impossible to programatically own the union of all possible
> > languages.
> OK. So what is the current "official" packaging policy?
> * Let each package own the /usr/share/locale/<lang> dirs it uses?
> * Let /usr/share/locale/<lang> dirs be unowned?
> The former would be a clear approach, while the latter seems sloppy to
> me, nevertheless seems to be what has been favored so far.
I don't think there *is* a policy. The former seems more practical,
of course, you'll have to make sure everything has the same perms,
etc.
Bill
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