Re: Debian Weekly News - August 10th, 1999
On Tue 10 Aug 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Wichert Akkerman, the Debian Project Leader, [9]addressed the FHS
> /usr/share/doc issue: "I request all developers to NOT move to the FHS
> right now. The Technical Committe is working to resolve the issue, and
> packages already using /usr/share/doc will likely just need to be
> changed again when they reach a resolution.
Is the phrase "NOT move to the FHS right now" meant only for the
/usr/share/doc issue, or for everything? E.g. /usr/share/man,
/usr/share/misc, ...
As the isdnutils uploaded last week (3.0-13) was built with a new
version of debmake that unexpectedly started putting things into
/usr/share/doc (I got a complaint that changelog.Debian.gz wasn't in
/usr/doc/isdnutils) and that package now has its stuff split over
/usr/doc and /usr/share/doc as a result, I want to upload a new version
soon which has made the transition to FHS as per the policy docs.
However, the statement by Wichert referenced above says I shouldn't (and
hence debmake should revert to its old behaviour!).
So what is it? I can't keep up with debian-policy, I just look what's in
the docs and that states to use /usr/share/doc ...
> Two security items this week: New versions of [15]isdnutils and the
Yup, that's the one :-)
Paul Slootman
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