Hi,
>>"Chris" == Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> Not an option? You're missing my point again. I've got
Chris> packages installed that are 2.4.0. In many cases, these are
Chris> the latest, up-to-date versions. Ok, my hypothetical
Chris> Mr. A. S. Shole (the name says it all) shouldn't have actually
Chris> closed the bug, but there's no reason why he couldn't ignore
Chris> it for an indefinite amount of time, possibly years. People
Chris> *do* ignore policy changes for years, and they could easily do
Chris> so out of disagreement with a policy version as well as
Chris> through simple laziness. *That's* my point, and I apologise
Chris> for not being more clear, and for laying the blame for
Chris> misreading on you.
Yes, all packages are ot updated to meet policy requirements
in anywhere close to timely fashion. But this is a bug like any other
bug: there are indeed buggy packages out there, and policy can't
mandate non-bugginess (espescially if the bug is ignoring policy ;-)
However, the now dead proposal would have allowed for
a) potato -- partially moved to /usr/share, with symlinks in /usr/doc
b) woody mosatly moved to /usr/share, (important bugs mean that
packages that have not moved get dropped from woody), with a
symlink forest in /usr/doc.
c) woody +1 No more symlinks in /usr/doc
Chris> But, given that, I think my original argument stands. It's too late
Chris> to ensure that everyone either sticks with /usr/doc or uses symlinks.
Chris> Which is too bad for my (pending) proposal as well as for yours. I'm
Chris> trying to be realistic here.
There are still few enough packages that user /usr/doc that we
can still file important bugs against them for potato, ensuring they
change or be dropped out of potato. I hope that it won't come to the
latter, since these developers are enterprising folks keepig way
ahead of the bleeding edge ;-)
manoj
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