Package: debian-policy Version: 4.7.1.0 Severity: important X-debbugs-cc: hel...@subdivi.de, vinc...@vinc17.net, bi...@debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org
Hello,
Thank you all for your replies.
I believe that there is a procedural issue which trumps the substantive
issue about merging or not merging: releasing Policy is not meant to
render a bunch of packages buggy (of any bug severity) except where the
change to Policy is a deliberate step in some larger process.
If this was one or two cases, we could ignore it. But it's not, it's
loads of packages. Procedurally, this is just too far from our norm.
So we have to lower the severity of the wording for /etc/games.
Therefore I am seeking seconds for the following patch.
I would encourage those of you most interested in the merge to do an MBF
requesting the merge be performed for all the affected packages, and
then we can undo this again.
("may" and "encouraged" here have their official Policy meanings)
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diff --git a/policy/ch-files.rst b/policy/ch-files.rst
index 6fda3b1..c2e4700 100644
--- a/policy/ch-files.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-files.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ to the ``debian-devel`` mailing list and try to find a
consensus about
which program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached,
*both* programs must be renamed.
+There is a exception to the above rules for ``/usr/games``: packages that
+already install programs to ``/usr/games``, where another package installs a
+program of the same with different functionality to a different directory on
+the default ``PATH``, may continue to do so. However, packages must not
+install any newly conflicting programs to ``/usr/games``, and packages already
+doing so are encouraged to move these programs to non-conflicting names.
+
Packages must not install files to paths whose first component is a name
directly under the file system root and which is a symbolic link to a
directory of the same name under ``/usr``. That is, packages must not install
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Sean Whitton
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