Re: writing a release announcement
>>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
Branden> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:06:56AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> We are far better at being compliant with FHS 2.2, except that
>> we have /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (the -4 violates 2.2).
The sections in question are:
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3.7.5 /etc/X11 : Configuration for the X Window System (optional)
3.7.5.1 Purpose
/etc/X11 is the location for all X11 host-specific configuration. This
directory is necessary to allow local control if /usr is mounted read
only.
3.7.5.2 Specific Options
The following files, or symbolic links to files, must be in /etc/X11 if
the corresponding subsystem is installed:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Xconfig | The configuration file for early versions of XFree86 |
| | (optional) |
|------------+-----------------------------------------------------------|
| XF86Config | The configuration file for XFree86 versions 3 and 4 |
| | (optional) |
|------------+-----------------------------------------------------------|
| Xmodmap | Global X11 keyboard modification file (optional) |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Table 3.7.5.2.2
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Branden> Yuck, that's horse puckey. Where do I complain to?
I think there is a mailing list for it.
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Comments related to this standard are welcome. Any comments or
suggestions for changes may be directed to the FHS editor (Daniel
Quinlan <quinlan@pathname.com>) or the FHS mailing list. Typographical
or grammatical comments should be directed to the FHS editor.
The FHS mailing list is located at <fhs-discuss@ucsd.edu>. To subscribe
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However, they also say:
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Before sending mail to the mailing list it is requested that you first
contact the FHS editor in order to avoid excessive re-discussion of old
topics.
Please do not send mail to the mailing list without first contacting
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7.6 Contributors
Brandon S. Allbery <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org>
Keith Bostic <bostic@cs.berkeley.edu>
Drew Eckhardt <drew@colorado.edu>
Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
Stephen Harris <sweh@spuddy.mew.co.uk>
Ian Jackson <ijackson@cus.cam.ac.uk>
John A. Martin <jmartin@acm.org>
Ian McCloghrie <ian@ucsd.edu>
Chris Metcalf <metcalf@lcs.mit.edu>
Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
David C. Niemi <niemidc@clark.net>
Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@pathname.com>
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
David H. Silber <dhs@glowworm.firefly.com>
Thomas Sippel-Dau <t.sippel-dau@ic.ac.uk>
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu>
Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Fred N. van Kempen <waltje@infomagic.com>
Bernd Warken <bwarken@mayn.de>
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manoj
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