Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:04:53AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > > since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > > No, it's not in policy yet. Sorry, I meant to say "yes you can". But it should become policy soon, so tha

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Josip Rodin wrote: > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. No, it's not in policy yet. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes fo

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 09:24:48PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > >> Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > > > > > >Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > > >since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > > > > Okay, the

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
would be nice to have the compatibility stuff in one seperate package. e.g. one package, that symlinks /usr/share/doc to /usr/doc, /usr/share/man to /usr/man, /usr/share/info to /usr/info. remember that we want to get rid of the old stuff at some point, and this should be as smoth as possible. doi

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 07:48:54AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > > Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > > > > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > > since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > > > > > Can I upload packag

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > since long time ago, IIRC before h

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 09:24:48PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > >> Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > > > >Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > >since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > > Okay, then I propose th

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: >> Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > >Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory >since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.

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Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > Can I upload packages with the /usr/man ->

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0200, Christian Leutloff wrote: > > So it would be very good to hear from people: what problems are we > > likely to face in the move, how can we do it without destroying 2500+ > > packages, etc., etc. > > Why not integrating tests for the FHS compliance into li

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > As nobody has yet argued against my policy proposal of adopting the > FHS, it is likely to become policy quite soon. So we need to start > actively thinking about how to go about managing the changeover, and > which exceptions we will make. > > A quick

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Christian Leutloff
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it would be very good to hear from people: what problems are we > likely to face in the move, how can we do it without destroying 2500+ > packages, etc., etc. Why not integrating tests for the FHS compliance into lintian!? First they are warnings and

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 1999-05-24, Julian Gilbey écrivait : > AFAIK, the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info is well under way, as is > /usr/lib/texmf -> /usr/share/texmf. sgml-tools has a longstanding bug on this problem (#35965), opened on Apr. 12th. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.fdn.fr/~tquinot/>

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:09:05AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > We may need some mass NMU's, but it would be nice if that could be > avoided. We shouldn't need those. The only thing I expect that would take mass NMUs is the /usr/doc and /usr/man things. Both should be possible to happen over ti

Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
As nobody has yet argued against my policy proposal of adopting the FHS, it is likely to become policy quite soon. So we need to start actively thinking about how to go about managing the changeover, and which exceptions we will make. A quick think would indicate that the most likely difficulties