control: tag -1 + pending Hello,
On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 06:00pm +01, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:33:58PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: >> > What is a graceful failure for some script is a crash for another... >> >> I would be happy to reduce the expectations of the language here; when I said >> "gracefully" here, the only case I had in mind was "doesn't fail silently" >> (e.g. just exiting or having a menu item silently fail, without showing any >> message). > > What is missing in this policy proposal from my point of view, is what the > Debian maintainer is expected to do if the upstream software does not follow > it. > > For /usr/share/doc/$pkg, it is easy to move the files to /usr/share/$pkg. I don't think that would be a good fix in most cases. > But for /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info, what to do ? Well, patch the program not to require the files. I'm not sure there's any very general advice we could give about doing that. > Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is > removed, so I wonder how far we can actually validate this. We've had that restriction in place for a long time, so that package is just buggy, I think. -- Sean Whitton
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