I've been catching up on debian-devel (only 4900 messages to go), and have come across a discussion about FHS.
I have two kinds of comment on this proposal: the first is appropriate for debian-devel, and concerns our general goals, and is in this message: Firstly, I stick to my guns that we need incremental change. So, no `flag day', no moving everything at once, and no `release goals' saying that things must be according to the FHS. I'll post to debian-policy about technical mechanisms. Secondly: I maintain that we should NOT follow the FHS if it differs gratuitously from the FSSTND. We should make changes where and only where they are actually warranted. /usr/share is warranted IMO. /var/state is NOT - it's just a cosmetic change, and will be a major pain. We should probably document our exceptions. Discussion of the details belongs on debian-policy. Ian.
