Hello, I am not responding to anyone in particular, but to each of you in this single mail.
Roland has expressed my feelings very well. He pointed out that we don't need to push unconvenient changes to the whole Debian GNU/Linux project, which is certainly correct. The small changes which are better included in the normal packages should not rise contention [1] in general. Matthew found the right word for it, when he mentioned that we should be gentle. I thank everyone who has expressed his support. The next step is not to file further bug reports for individual packages, but to get hurd support into dpkg and the policy. I will file a proposal for this today, interested people should watch and participate at debian-policy. About the subject: Gordon seems to agree with adding /usr support to glibc now, which seems to be a good compromise. People who want to try without can still use the symlink, I will make sure the install scripts work with both alternatives. Officially, only the real directory shall be supported, but we shall try and make a list of problems that appear with the symlink whenever we are aware of them. Thanks, Marcus [1] It was indeed such a small incident which made me worry, but then, it was just a single incident, and I exaggerated a bit. -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
