Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-26 Thread Joel Klecker
At 18:15 +1100 2000-01-25, Brian May wrote: Marcus == Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcus GNU (read: the Hurd) is using /libexec (we don't have Marcus /usr) as well. It is a good idea for some stuff IMHO. Marcus The FHS should probably reconsider its point of view. I

Making /usr/doc/XXX symbolic link to ../share/doc/XXX is BAD idea

2000-01-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
reassign 47298 debian-policy thanks Hi, If this is a bug, then it needs to be fixed for all packages, not just libcgi-perl. Marc Due to lack of space on the main partition, I moved /usr/doc to Marc some other partition (let's call it /DISK2) and made /usr/doc Marc to be a symbolic

Processed: Making /usr/doc/XXX symbolic link to ../share/doc/XXX is BAD idea

2000-01-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 47298 debian-policy Bug#47298: Making /usr/doc/XXX symbolic link to ../share/doc/XXX is BAD idea Bug reassigned from package `libcgi-perl' to `debian-policy'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-26 Thread Greg Stark
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really don't see the use.. if I follow your logic then /usr/lib should be just libraries. Okay, but now I have a program that uses a couple of bitmaps in its userinterface.. lets make /usr/libbitmap then! Actually it's /usr/include/X11/bitmaps

Re: Making /usr/doc/XXX symbolic link to ../share/doc/XXX is BAD idea

2000-01-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On 25 Jan 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: reassign 47298 debian-policy thanks Hi, If this is a bug, then it needs to be fixed for all packages, not just libcgi-perl. Marc Due to lack of space on the main partition, I moved /usr/doc to Marc some other partition (let's call

Bug#53763: [AMENDED PROPOSAL] policy for packages providing X fonts

2000-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:43:50PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: If either is written in, I gladly revoke my objections because I agree with the concept... Here is an amended version of the proposal that should address your concerns. There are two changes from the original: 1) Added the

Bug#53763: [AMENDED PROPOSAL] policy for packages providing X fonts

2000-01-26 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 06:28:42AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:43:50PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: If either is written in, I gladly revoke my objections because I agree with the concept... Here is an amended version of the proposal that should address

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-26 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:07:20PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- You could make a task- package to do this. That would be cool. Then people could try it both ways and see which they prefer. On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: I only said

Re: Making /usr/doc/XXX symbolic link to ../share/doc/XXX is BAD idea

2000-01-26 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:08:26PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On 25 Jan 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: reassign 47298 debian-policy thanks Hi, If this is a bug, then it needs to be fixed for all packages, not just libcgi-perl. Marc Due to lack of space on the

Re: Making /usr/doc/XXX symbolic link to ../share/doc/XXX is BAD idea

2000-01-26 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:39:34AM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: Santiago, there is a reason why we don't support /usr/doc being a symlink to someplace else -- because of the insistance on using relative symlinks. AFAICT, if we switch to absolute, problems such as this will go away. Would that