Fwd: update on ARB exception for /opt installation

[Allison Randal]

This unblocks us, so we can move forward with the applications currently
in the queue.

Could we schedule an IRC meeting later this week or early next week to
run through those quickly? IIRC, we're scattered across US, Europe, and
Australia, which makes timezones tricky, but still possible (I have
another weekly dev meeting across those timezones).

Allison

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: update on ARB exception for /opt installation
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:17:24 -0500
From: Allison Randal <allison at canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com

Tech Board met again today and agreed on:

- Allow .desktop files to be installed outside /opt. This is the only
exception needed, and persia has a potential workaround for Maverick.
- In Natty, we'll modify Quickly, cdbs, python-support, and related
packages to support installation in /opt.
- For Maverick, accept that .pyc files and version symlinks won't be
generated for Python libraries.
- For Maverick, ARB will perform manual package fixes on proposed
applications, to install in /opt and load libraries from /opt.
- Binaries only in /opt (no exceptions for Maverick), will not be in $PATH.
- Official install location is /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/<packagename>
(with version number, i.e. "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/foo-1.5")

Allison

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