Please don't remove the debian-x cc… On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 15:49:52 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:29:09PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it's been pointed out to me that we violate FHS ever since [1] is > > included in Debian. > > > > The FHS says "All X Window System manual pages must have an x appended > > to the filename." > > I always wondered what does that actually mean and I interpreted it > (probably wrongly) as saying that e.g. the manpage for XFree should > actually be XFree.3x to avoid risk on conflicts with other packages. > Yes, that's what that means. However I don't know of any actual conflict (there used to be one for mouse(4), but the manpage for the X mouse driver is now called mousedrv(4)). > We does that for ncurses, ssh and perl at least and this seems reasonnable > for X also. > > Could you restate the options for people unfamiliar with xorg packaging ? > I'm not sure what needs restating, but I'll try to explain more. 1) policy FHS exception, should be clear enough 2) patch xutils-dev: means shipping a XORG_MANPAGE_SECTIONS macro that differs from upstream. As that macro is copied to the configure script in tarballs by make dist, this means that tarballs created on debian systems will carry a patched macro. Not something I like. 3) override suffix for each package: means a change to each and every X package (well, the ones that ship manpages, but still) to set some variables when running configure, to override the default manpage suffix set by the macro 4) re-add the x suffix to XORG_MANPAGE_SECTIONS upstream, should be clear as well. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
