Thumbnailer helper executable should not be instaled under /usr/share

Bug #1237275 reported by James Henstridge
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Bug Description

The thumbnailer library installed a helper program to /usr/share/thumbnailer/vs-thumb. This is not platform independent data, so should not be installed under /usr/share (a subdirectory under /usr/lib or /usr/libexec would be more appropriate).

Apparently this is difficult to change late in the cycle though due to the path being encoded into the AppArmor security policies.

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Jussi Pakkanen (jpakkane) wrote :

Apparently the correct directory is /usr/lib/$(arch)/packagename,

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

This is a duplicate of bug #1235325. Please see that bug for details and note that this can be fixed for saucy because the apparmor policy is allowing the suggested path already. Ie, apparmor policy has:
  /usr/lib/@{multiarch}/thumbnailer/vs-thumb ixr,

due to discussion in bug #1235325 where it is recommended that /usr/lib/$arch/thumbnailer/vs-thumb be used.

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