Re: I'd like to coordinate a major update of stable
Hi,
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Rather than berate each other about our obtuseness on this
>> issue in particular, or a lack of acuity in general, I posit that
>> there are two issues involved:
>>
>> a) frustration involved in readin the docs in two different locations
>> The symlink solution addresses this
>> b) incremental upgrades to unstable packages from unstable, which
>> makes documentation not be accessable with tools such as dwww,
>> man, ect. Your stable upgrades solution addresses that.
>>
>> The stable-upgrades solution has no impact on the former
>> problem, and the symlinks solution only addresses the latter in a non
>> optimal fashion.
>>
>> I agree that the symlinks solution does not handle 2; and your
>> stable upgrades solution would be required.
Joey> Er, what are you saying. Does the symlink solution fix b) in a non-optimal
Joey> way, or not at all (and what is "2")?
I guerss I meant (b) above.
>> The proposal that I put forth before the -policy
>> group, and before the tech ctte, has to do with the first problem.
Joey> Why did you ignore the second problem? It's clear you knew
Joey> about it on July 17th, when you posted a proposal to fix it
Joey> that included:
Because I felt that the former was important enough, and that
was what I concentrated on. Since it has the added benefit of making
the (b) less critical, and we probably would have fixed everyhing by
the time woody has happened, I did not bother getting a better
solution out there.
Surely you are not berating me for not proposing a solution
for both problems? Why am I supposed to be responsible for all the
problems there were? I took (a), proposed a solution that also made
(b) less critical, but did not optimally solve it.
I had enough grief over the symlinks ot to push other
developers to also make potentially complex changes to their code. I
figured some one would take up the slack. Glad to see you have.
>> * We should not break backwards compatibility during the transition
>> period. This is a quality of implementation issue
>> During the transition, we need to provide backwards
Joey> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> compatibility, firstly for programs ike `dwww', and `dhelp', and
Joey> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> also for our users who have gotten used to looking under a single
>> dir (`/usr/doc/') for docs (``/usr/doc/package''). During the
>> transition, the documentation could be in in two places, and that
>> is not good
Nice goal, if I say so myself. Glad to see you covered it. The
symlink proposal does push the need to do anything vis-a-vis dwww
and dhelp to a later date, but it is not, as you point out, a
solution.
Joey> I cannot belive you claim you are not aware of this issue, or
I was. I did not have as facile a solution, and did not
propose a fix for that to the tech ctte. The solution for (b) is to
fix all programs, or something. I did not have a solution I liked for
that.
Joey> that this is not at least half of the issue the techical
Joey> committe was called upon to fix. I can find numerous mentions
The proposal that I put forth, before the ctte, and before the
-policy, solved (a), and deferred (b). You now have proposed a
solution to (b), and o one is objecting.
Unless you feel like continuing this discussion, which has all
the signs of degenerating into a flame fest, I think we either calm
down, and move away from injecting personalities in here, or nothing
really shall be achieved.
Joey> of problem b) throughout the policy list archives for last
Joey> month. It's not as if this were a concern I just brought up.
No it is not. It is just not something that had a solution
proposed until now.
If you were to bring it up in -policy, it may well pass.
manoj
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