> On debian-policy, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What is the status of accepted policy amendments which have not yet
> > been incorporated into policy?
> >
> > In other words, is it OK to announce the move to FHS on
> > -devel-announce so that developers can start making the necessary
> > changes to their packages?
>
> Over half of Debian is using debhelper. Joey Hess says he will change it to do
> FHS stuff once FHS is policy. Hope that is useful. When can I upload packages
> with /usr/doc moved to /usr/share/doc, should I wait until Joey changes
> debhelper or should I hack it (all my packages are debhelper)? I think I will
> wait, but freeze is drawning near. I think that I agree with Joey that policy
> should be changed before FHS packages are uploaded.
Which is my question: the amendment has been accepted; can we go ahead
as if it were policy or should we wait until it's actually
incorporated?
> We need some lintian check as well. Not just file positioning, but references
> as well. All /usr/doc/$PACKAGE in man pages must change. Every GPL package
> must have /usr/doc/$PACKAGE/copyright modified to stop pointing at
> /usr/doc/copyright and point to /usr/share/copyright/GPL instead (that is
> where copyrights are going right?).
Yes, lintian certainly needs changing to account for the FHS move.
/usr/share/common-licenses/{GPL,LGPL,BSD,Artistic} are the licenses
you're thinking of.
And as regards the freeze, with a change of this magnitude, which
Richard has been talking about implementing since before the slink
release, it is going to be at least a month before we can even think
about freezing. Hence my comments about the other policy proposals.
Julian
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