Bug#5002: base installs in /usr/local
From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> Secondly, I think that there are several things that `base' ought to
> do when upgraded, so I think it should be suitable for upgrade.
Agreed. Whoever takes over initial-passwd and initial-dev can convert
them to upgrade correctly. I just want to get them right for 1.2 and get
off of the critical path for release.
> Thirdly, I don't think that base needs to be split up to do this.
> It's already small enough as it is.
I want to split it for administrative reasons. I want to have one person
who is the passwd/group maintainer, and one person who is the /dev
maintainer, and one to maintain what is left of base once those two
tasks are removed. The reason for this is that passwd/group seems to need
to be changed _frequently_, and /dev often though less frequently than
passwd/group. Thus, while the packages are small I think they would profit
from being broken out and having separate maintainers for those areas.
Does this make more sense to you?
Thanks
Bruce
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