Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[email protected]> writes: > On 19/05/11 19:30, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I think it's going to be very difficult to do this through Policy. >> This would mean Debian-specific patches to a *LOT* of software. >> Usually we only put things like this into Policy once they're almost >> entirely adopted already, to clean up the stragglers. The best >> approach with this sort of thing would be to try to convince upstreams >> first, so that Debian doesn't have to create microforks of practically >> everything. > It's only a recommendation, so we don't need to fork anything (and we > shouldn't). There isn't really such a thing as a recommendation in that sense in Policy. If it's in Policy, it mostly becomes a bug in a package that doesn't follow it. (There are a few exceptions to this, but they're always awkward.) Usually we push more best-practice sorts of recommendations off to the Developer's Reference instead. > But the recommendation is already there, so changing it does no harm > (we're not going to change this downstream as we're not going to change > software that use different dirs than ~/.myprogram). Or if recommending > the XDG directory is bad not because the XDG directory itself but > because we shouldn't be changing this in Debian, I wonder how that is > different to what Policy 9.1.1 currently recommends :) Policy recommends grouping dotfiles together into directories if a given program has more than one, which is one of those things that I mentioned in my earlier message as one of those things that's already largely adopted across the upstream source bases already, so Debian is just making a statement about catching stragglers. By comparison, nearly none of the software that I use currently uses the XDG home directory layout, so recommending that would be a much different sort of step. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
