On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:05:20 +0100
aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> By default, PSTAT (a dependency of VDEV) is installed in
> "/usr/local", just as VDEV.
>
> As Daniel Raurich explained in another thread:
>
> [...] the "/usr/local" directory is for non-packaged local stuff [...]
>
> So, should i change this configuration for those packages, or should
> i skip debhelper's "dh_usrlocal" script adding:
>

> binary:
>      dh binary --before dh_usrlocal
>      dh binary --after dh_usrlocal

>
> to debian/rules?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>

>     Aitor.

This is pure opinion: Get a second opinion:

My understanding is that /usr/local is the base of the tree used for
software *not* installed by the distro's package manager. When I
compile my own dmenu or lyx, it goes under the /usr/local directory,
with all executables going in /usr/local/bin.

My understanding is that the distro's package manager never puts
anything in the /usr/local tree. If the thing is an executable, it goes
in /usr/bin. Libraries go in /usr/lib. Header files go in /usr/include.
Fonts and themes and other stuff like that goes in /usr/share.

If /usr/local/VDEV is a directory, I'd imagine you'd farm out its files
to the directories listed in the preceding paragraph. If VDEV is an
executable, it would go in /usr/bin, or perhaps /sbin or /usr/sbin.

Like I say, I'm the world's least authoritative person when it comes to
package managers, but if I've understood what I've heard others, the
preceding pretty much sums up what to do.

SteveT

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