Joseph Carter wrote: > Just enough people don't like symlinks to make that not a consensus. > > Just enough people don't like trying to move entire trees to make that not > a consensus. > > Just enough people want us not to move anything at all (screw the FHS and > standards, right? (can you tell my bias)) to make that also be on the > plate.
Ok, here we have the three options to vote on. I'm going to wait at least a week as Manoj suggested so we can try to vote on this. > And then there are the people who think that we should just say screw > backwards compatibility and just move the directories without bothering > with transition. Unfortunately many of them are already uploading > packages, which means there's a time limit on the decision. Well we can always file critical bugs against those packages when it turns out they did the wrong thing. > My vote is use your own technical judgement. You've demonstrated that you > know what you're doing at least more often than not (*grin and duck*) and > you've got just shy of 70% of the distribution behind you using debhelper. Flattery will get you nowhere. :-) -- see shy jo