[IRCServices Coding] Build prefix/FHS compliance

[Andrew Church]

     Thanks for the notes.  I'm swamped with work at the moment, but I'll
definitely look into addressing the first two points for the next beta
release.

     As far as FHS compliance goes, can you make any specific suggestions?
I'm not sure how much I can do, since Services' design requires all data
under a common hierarchy, and at this point it's a bit late to go back and
change that so it works reliably with scattered files.  It may suffice in
at least some cases to use absolute rather than relative paths, though, so
let me know what changes you'd recommend and I'll see how feasable they
are.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>Hi! After a bit of a hiatus for DebConf, I'm catching up with my
>packaging work.
>
>I've worked out three changes that I'd like to make for Debian:
>
>      * You may have noticed that the consensus on the Debian bug
>        tracker is that I need to change the package name to something
>        other than 'ircservices' to fit into the package namespace - so
>        I'd like to change the binary name as well. Currently the value
>        of $(PROGRAM) in the Makefile doesn't affect the pidfile or the
>        ircservices-chk script.
>      * I need to be able to change the build prefix independently for
>        'make install' - i.e. as if installing into a chroot. I could
>        either add an $(INSTALL_PREFIX) variable, or possibly modify
>        $(PREFIX) in a backwards-compatible way.
>      * The default locations of the installed files will need modifying
>        to fit into the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. This will be the
>        most complicated patch, I expect.
>
>I realise this is at a really bad time in your release process, so if I
>don't get all of these done in time, I can maintain patches against the
>released version.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- 
>Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk>
>
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