installing files in /opt

Michael Hall mhall119 at ubuntu.com
Thu Jul 5 13:41:13 UTC 2012


Lintian is designed for distro packages, which follow slightly different
packaging requirements.  You can ignore that warning when submitting
your app through our MyApps portal.

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com


On 07/05/2012 06:47 AM, Lucio Messina wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm Lucio Messina, and I want to submit an app for the Ubuntu App
> Showdown.
> 
> I'm Italian and I don't speak English very well, so forgive me.
> 
> I wrote some C++ code and then I began to learn how to package my
> application.
> After three days of trying, I made my application install in /opt, how
> is shown here:
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Submissions/PackageQuickStart
> 
> But when I run lintian on my package it says:
> "dir or files in opt"
> 
> so?
> on the rules I read: "[my app should] Be able to be installed into the
> /opt/<package-name> directory (*)"
> why lintian doesn't allow me to create files in /opt?
> 
> How can i solve my problems?
> 
> Thank you for the answer and sorry for bothering you.
> 
> Lucio Messina
> 
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