Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
Santiago> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> manoj
>> who can't figger why we can't just make a plan and stick to it
Santiago> Because the plan was not perfect, obviously.
You haven't quite made that case. The plan obviously took into
account far more than you are at the moment; it worried about
smooth partial upgrades, it did not assume blithely that murphy's law
shall not strike, or that ``we assume that most postsinsts are likely
to be sane and weel crafted ot use a helper package'', it did not
have the attitude that a smooth upgrade was only required for
``clueless users who couldn't fogire out that the documentation had
been moved under them''.
From what I have seen of the half baked proposals recently
posted to the mailing list, the plan we are following is reasoned,
works for even the corner cases, not just the most common case, and,
apart from one developer who seems to be bothered by it, does not
have many retractors.
Santiago> We will not be able to release woody (a fresh install)
Santiago> without /usr/doc just because policy said it had to exist,
Santiago> but it would have been technically possible and desirable
Santiago> to do so.
I think not. Your ``technically possible'' is based on
assumptions I think we can't make if we place quality before
haste.
Santiago> I just hope we do not repeat this mistake and change policy
Santiago> just after woody release, so that packages should not rely
Santiago> on /usr/doc being present, even if this means we have to
Santiago> deprecate the tech committee's plan.
Please go ahead and file a GR to the effect.
manoj
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