Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.) ... > 3. base-files is changed so that /usr/man et al are symlinks to > /usr/share/man, instead, with check in the preinst to create the new > directories as symlinks if the old ones exist as directories. Existing > systems on which this package is installed will have everything left > alone, but new systems will end up with files in the new locations.
Our difficulty is that it's very difficult to distinguish between local policy and debian policy when examining a running system. I'd like to formally propose that Debian adopt a hands-off migration to FHS approach: We'll do what's reasonable to make sure that running systems will interoperate with FHS software, but we will *not* be moving directories around. We can provide tools for sysadmins who want to do that by hand, but it's not proper for Debian as a whole to be that concerned about the physical (as opposed to logical) layout of directories. -- Raul
