Re: I'd like to coordinate a major update of stable

[David Bristel <targon@targonia.com>]

Thank you for correcting me on that.  My own feeling on this is that since
potato will be the first version to use the /usr/share/doc, we should set up the
symlinks to point from /usr/share/doc to /usr/doc.  After potato, packages can
all be in /usr/share/doc.  I don't see that this should be all that difficult.
Slink updated packages will put their docs in /usr/share/doc, with a symlink in
/usr/doc.  This discussion has been going on for a while, and from what I've
seen, only a few people who think we should ONLY put files in /usr/share/doc
without the symlink(or those who only want /usr/doc) are complaining about it.
Change is a part of Linux, and Debian is no exception.  Microsoft doesn't have
symlinks in their filesystem, so it would be a big deal for them to move the
location of things.  Linux allows us the ability to phase in /usr/share/doc
without driving everyone crazy.

							Dave Bristel


On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Joey Hess wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:30:34 -0700
> From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
> To: David Bristel <targon@targonia.com>
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: I'd like to coordinate a major update of stable
> 
> David Bristel wrote:
> > Without getting into the CURRENT debate, I'd like to suggest that the problem
> > with where docs are kept(/usr/doc vs /usr/share/doc) doesn't apply to Joey's
> > original proposal to update stable with new and updated packages.  If slink has
> > a policy to put documentation in /usr/doc, then that's where packages to be
> > added to slink should put their docs, or at least make a symlink in there.  Back
> > to the original topic, I'd like to ask if anyone has a problem with the
> > stable-update release idea itself.  If you like the idea that we can offer
> > updates to stable as well as unstable, then let's not worry about issues which
> > should only be addressed when talking about the unstable release.  Speak your
> > mind, Yes, it's a good idea, or No, it's not.  If you have an idea for new
> > things to add to Debian, then that's for unstable.
> 
> You missed the second half of my stable update posting, which proposed that
> the updated stable have programs modified to work with /usr/share/doc and
> /usr/doc, so users could upgrade to it and then safely install packages from
> potato.
> 
> Now, that was just a second half of the post, and I would like the firt half
> to be considered independantly -- and most people seem to agree with the
> first half, that there should be an update to stable with new X, kernel,
> pcmcia, etc.
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo
>