On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:31:43PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I want to suggest to finish the FHS transition. This includes the > following steps:
> - Packages with Standards-Version >= 3.0 must follow the FHS. Didn't we already have this discussion? The Standards-Version field is not a reliable indication of much of anything. I strongly object to removing packages because of what amount to cosmetic issues, and an incorrect Standards-Version (one that doesn't reflect the version of policy that the package _actually_ complies with) is really no more than a cosmetic issue (no software actually uses that field). I only have a few of the listed packages installed on my system, but most of the ones I checked did indeed use /usr/share/doc (and /usr/share/man, in those cases where man pages were present). I suspect that this is due to the use of debhelper, but anyway.... Checking for FHS violations should be done by checking for FHS violations, not by checking an unreliable and all-but-meaningless field in some configuration file. (Plus, as a side issue, by a strict reading of the FHS, we should be using /usr/share/menu rather than /usr/lib/menu, which means RC bugs against nearly every package in the system!) :-) > - A change in the policy to remove the obsolete /usr/doc symlinks. This is supposed to happen once enough packages make the transition. Now, if we're really down to 253 packages that use /usr/doc (with no symlink), then maybe it's time. But, unfortunately, that number, 253, measures *claimed* compliance, not actual compliance. Now, my poking around suggests that there are actually far *fewer* than 253 packages still using /usr/doc. And if that's true, then it's definitely time to remove the symlinks. But it might be nice to have some hard facts, rather than speculation based on unreliable claims made by inattentive package maintainers. > Ben Gertzfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wmifs > Eric Leblanc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) groovycd > Eric Leblanc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) zangband > Gene McCulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) xcopilot > Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen a ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spellcast > Luis Francisco Gonzalez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) xgammon > Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) emacs20 > Robert Woodcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) cd-discid > Takuo KITAME ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) bbdb > Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gdb > Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gnumeric > Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sed I inspected these packages. Only emacs20 lacked the /usr/share/doc directory. If that ratio holds true (which I doubt), then we've only got 21 packages left to transition! :-) cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku
