Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
Santiago> The original plan said:
Santiago> 2. Post potato, we continue the transition, with the
Santiago> symlinks in place. Before freeze, we file
Santiago> important bugs against any package that has not
Santiago> been moved over (in one and a half release
Santiago> periods, we may be actually able to accomplish
Santiago> this), with NMU-fests to bring over the others.
That was the goal. Goals slip. We were not able to accomplish
it in time for woody freeze. Milestones slip.
Santiago> So at least the first thing I said does not seem wrong to me.
An informative footnote in policy states:
======================================================================
[1] These symlinks will be removed in the future, but they have to be
there for compatibility reasons until all packages have moved and the
policy is changed accordingly.
======================================================================
Policy has not been changed.
A quick recap:
potato: partial transition. /usr/doc is the place we point people
to. /usr/doc has some symlinks
woody: /usr/doc should have only symlinks. We point people to
/usr/share/doc/
woody +1 : policy changes just after woody release. symlinks are
supposed to go away now (only a recommends -- can't make
8000+ packages insta-buggy)
woody+n: when sufficient packages no longer have symlinks, policy
changed again to must not, and any packages with symlinks
in /usr/doc have release critical bugs. At this point
/usr/doc can go away.
Whether N==1 depends on how quickly people remove the symlinks.
manoj
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