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Re: Who owns /usr/share/locale/<lang>?: msg#00004

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Subject: Re: Who owns /usr/share/locale/<lang>?

Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx) 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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