next ARB meeting, tomorrow

[Allison Randal]

On 12/20/2010 06:05 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> So far it looks good though I agree with Stefano's comment in the bug
> that having changelog/copyright outside of /usr/share/doc/<package>
> should be documented (didn't find a reference on the wiki) and I myself
> found it quite a weird requirement.
> I'm quite used to being able to read all the licensing and changelogs
> from /usr/share/doc/ as I'm sure some other users are and we're breaking
> that with packages like Suspended Sentence.
>
> When was that decided and was there a good reason to do that ?

That was decided by the Tech Board, when they reviewed potential 
exceptions to the /opt installation requirement. They were convinced to 
allow files outside /opt only where it was technically impossible to run 
the application otherwise. These files are informational, rather than 
functional, so can live in /opt.

It will seem a little strange at first, but the fundamental idea of ARB 
apps is that they are not part of the system, but stand-alone bundles, 
so it fits to have the supporting package information as part of the 
bundle (in the app's directory under /opt). Keeping these files out of 
/usr/share/doc also helps make sure an ARB app can never conflict with 
the files of a system package.

Allison