[ITP] astrometry.net-0.38-1
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 3 12:55:00 GMT 2011
On 11/3/2011 8:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I hoped that somebody who voted on the package would do the final
> GTG, but in vain it seems.
Sorry...I had intended to, but got swamped with other stuff. :-(
> Anyway, I just had a look. The packaging now looks basically good. One
> issue I still have with the package is the big number of non-standard
> binaries in /usr/bin.
>
> Is it really necessary to have all the binaries as user-accessible
> binaries in /usr/bin? Or are many of the binaries just called from
> another (or other) binaries which serve as the primary UI? What also
> bugs me are the generic names of the binaries. Plotstuff, merge-index,
> tablist, tabsort, checktree, ... This all sounds not much like
> astronomer stuff.
> So, I would prefer to split the binaries into two groups:
>
> - UI binary (or binaries) into /usr/bin
>
> - Helper binaries into /usr/share/astrometry/bin
FHS says that architecture-dependent files should go under /usr/lib/ not
/usr/share...so
/usr/lib/astrometry/bin
--
Chuck
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