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ibus-cangjie does not respect --libexecdir #58
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First of all, if you set Second, I'm explictly setting I'm really not interested in having each downstreams installing the stuff in a different location, as eventually I'm the one who has to support users with the issues this creates. So I'd need a very compelling reason to support what you're asking for. Before we proceed further, why exactly do you want to install this file in this location? What purpose does it serve? How is it better for users? |
The purposed path for |
So this completely fell under my radar, sorry I didn't give any news for so long. Reading the page you linked to...
As a Fedora contributor, let me first say that I am very happy Debian isn't following us in using That folder is just plain stupid, and it is on purpose that IBus Cangjie doesn't install in
This I partially agree with:
This is what we do here. 😃
This is an excellent point, and we certainly need to make sure we respect this. As far as I know, we do respect this, but I'm unfamiliar with the way this works in Debian (it is completely different in Fedora). Can you confirm we're not doing anything wrong on this point?
That's honestly a bad idea. The setup script is a user-facing executable, it really should be in As for the So first of all, it seems that we agree on a few things. 😃 We both agree that The main argument in favour of My main argument in favour of Here are a few more questions for you:
Let's find something that works for both of us. 😃 |
Answering one of my questions:
Other IBus engines don't seem to install it in So at least that part of the policy page is wrong (or I misunderstood it 😄), and there is no need for me to move the Python library. |
Here is an update: Debian ibus package now uses In 2014, the Debian policy used FHS 2.1 which had no See https://bugs.debian.org/955227 for another ibus-cangjie package bug |
From https://bugs.debian.org/746978
In debian, we want to put
ibus-engine-cangjie
to/usr/lib/ibus
like other ibus packages. However, ibus-cangjie does not use the value set by--libexecdir
to determine the path ofibus-engine-cangjie
, thus we cannot changeibus-engine-cangjie
easily. Please help to support--libexecdir
, thanks.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: