Re: Finishing the FHS transition

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org> wrote:
>On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:31:43PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> - A change in the policy to remove the obsolete /usr/doc symlinks.
>
>This is supposed to happen once enough packages make the transition.
>Now, if we're really down to 253 packages that use /usr/doc (with no
>symlink), then maybe it's time.  But, unfortunately, that number, 253,
>measures *claimed* compliance, not actual compliance.
>
>Now, my poking around suggests that there are actually far *fewer*
>than 253 packages still using /usr/doc.  And if that's true, then it's
>definitely time to remove the symlinks.  But it might be nice to have
>some hard facts, rather than speculation based on unreliable claims
>made by inattentive package maintainers.

  http://qa.debian.org/fhs.html

... which is down to 109 /usr/doc-using packages on i386.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]