[meego-packaging] [meego-commits] 6901: Changes to Tools:Building/meego-packaging-tools

[Alexander Kanevskiy]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 13:59, Jian-feng Ding <jian-feng.ding at intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:49:31PM +0800, fathi.boudra at nokia.com wrote:
>> > Makefile in most of meego packages including this line:
>> >
>> >     include /usr/share/packaging-tools/Makefile.common
>> >
>> > It's a fuss if we change it ...
>>
>> IMHO, It should be fixed, following the renaming from
>> packaging-tools to meego-packaging-tools.
>>
> Yes, we should use /usr/share/meego-packaging-tools according the package name, but
> it need too much efforts to change all existing packages. So current decision is a
> tradeoff, but it should and will be corrected later.

you can ship with new directory name
(/usr/share/meego-packaging-tools), and also add symlink for time
being until critical mass of packages migrated to new name.

This would allow to start using new name, and give grace period for
existing package maintainers to adopt that change.

> Of course, we still need more discussion for it.


-- 
br, Alexander Kanevskiy