On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:19:22AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Russ, > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Right, this was the reason why I hadn't committed anything yet. We have > > to decide whether we're going to prohibit arch:any -> arch:all links > > completely to ensure that the binNMU changelog entries are visible. My > > inclination is to do so, and hence drop this whole section and just say > > that it's not allowed, but this will declare several packages in Debian > > buggy. > > > > Now, depending on how you read Policy, they were *already* buggy, since > > Policy has always required that packages ship changelog files, and those > > packages are in essence not including accurate changelog files. But this > > is making that very explicit. > > For what it's worth, I agree --- it seems best to prohibit > arch:any -> arch:all links until a better solution comes around.
I support that. My opinion is that it was a mistake to allow /usr/share/doc/<pkg> to be a symlink in the first place, so the more we remove them the better. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110305133636.GE17663@yellowpig
