Re: [Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-08 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:05:17PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > In my opinion, this exceptional measure should not last longer than one > release, i.e. potato, or else the whole FHS transition will last > much more than expected (the FHS transition will be "complete" when all > docs are in /usr/

Re: [Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Request: next time could you please quote the decided strategy instead of only giving us an URL? This is somewhat inconvenient for people who don't have a permanent net-connection. Wichert. -- == This combination of byt

Re: [Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:05:17PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On 6 Sep 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Next stage: : /usr/doc is illegal, and we start filing bugs against > >packages still using /usr/doc. Symlinks are still > >required. > This is exactly what I am tryi

Re: [Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-07 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi, On 6 Sep 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > [...] > Next stage: : /usr/doc is illegal, and we start filing bugs against >packages still using /usr/doc. Symlinks are still >required. > [...] This is exactly what I am trying to avoid. The purpose of requiring symlinks is

Re: [Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Santiago> On 5 Sep 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: can get rid of symlinks later. Santiago> Mmm, let's see if I understood this "deprecated vs illegal" thing. Santiago> Suppose I decide, for the packages I have not converted Santia

Re: [Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Sep-99, 23:00 (CDT), Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Unless someone else volunteers, I could come up with a > suggested language to be included in policy. It would be > updated with Raul's suggestions about not making all current packages > instantly buggy,

Re: [Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
On 5 Sep 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Unless someone else volunteers, I could come up with a > suggested language to be included in policy. It would be > updated with Raul's suggestions about not making all current packages > instantly buggy, and allowing the FSSTND conformi

Re: [Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Unless someone else volunteers, I could come up with a suggested language to be included in policy. It would be updated with Raul's suggestions about not making all current packages instantly buggy, and allowing the FSSTND conforming packages to be legal bt deprecated. I

[Result] Moving to the FHS: ...

1999-09-05 Thread Raul Miller
Short form: When moving to FHS, we need to provide /usr/doc/ -> /usr/share/doc/ symlink for backwards fsstnd compatability. Long form: See the debian-ctte mail archives. Basically, however, Wichert asked the committee for a migration strategy on August 5: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/de