On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > (See also my post to debian-devel about this. In particular, I'm > opposed to /var/state and think we should ignore the FHS on this > point.) > > One of the key changes that the FHS has compared to the FSSTND is the > existence of /usr/share. I think this is perfectly appropriate, but > it will take some effort. We need to make sure that everything works > during the transitional period. > > The following things should be done in the following order: > > 1. base-files should be amended to contain /usr/share/man, > /usr/share/doc and similar, as symlinks to /usr/man, etc. > base-files's postinst should check that none of these directories > exist as actual directories in both places and fail with an error > message if they do. > [ snipped ]
I strongly disagree. In fact, I see this as a contradiction to your earlier post, in which you said: "no `flag day', no moving everything at once". We have discussed this before, but it seems that you missed the discussion at all: If man and info are modified so that they support both old and new locations, we will not have to symlink anything, and we will not need to copy a lot of files from a directory to another one. Just upgrade packages incrementally and the ones being FHS-compliant will have already the files in /usr/share. -- "793d082717ed6f2004f4cbe783e80b1d" (a truly random sig)