On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > [Followups to debian-policy, please] > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I think that some people are espousing non-compliance with the > > standards. Is that what we want to do? > > The FHS exhaustively explains the difference between compatibility and > compliance. I note that the Debian policy manual says that all installed > files and directories "must comply" with the FHS, rather than "must be > compatible" with the FHS. > > Let this message serve as policy proposal that we change the wording of > section 3.1.1 from "must comply" to "must be compatible". This change > needs to be made irrespective of any consensus (or lack thereof) on the > issue moving binaries from (/usr)?/sbin to (/usr)?/bin, because we continue > to carry around relics of non-FHS-compliance (such as /var/state) that may > take quite some time to dislodge. (Witness the /usr/share/doc migration.)
I'll take this opportunity to remind the debian-policy editors of a wishlist proposal to do just that: 60461. -Steve
