Adminstrative changes, and the FHS
Hi folks,
I just uploaded policy and packaging manual packages to
master, and ave incorporated all the amendments and typos fixes for
the packages.
As a purely adminstrative issue, I would like to put
packaging-manual.sgml also into the debian-policy package. I do not
mean to merge any documents, or in any way, shape, or form change the
meaning, import, rating, of interpretation of any document.
The packaging-manual package contains but oe sgml file, and
essentially duplicates the adminstrative effort required for the
policy manual (for example, the change requiring the bundling of
version.ent had to be repeated). Since the same set of people upload
packages, and this list oversees both packages, and they are close in
intent, I propose that I be allowed to pull the packages together for
adminstrative purposes.
I realize that a an over haul of the packaging manual is long
overdue (it should really be documenting interfaces, and things like
package version numbers that are legal, as opposed to details of
miscellaneous program invocation), and we also need to decide whether
the newly uphauled manual should or should not have the weight of
policy.
Also, there has been a large backlog of items that have come
up for consideration here on the list, recorded as bugs, and gone
nowhere since. I would like to bring the matters up for review here,
and set up the discussion time, at the end of which they should
either be adopted, rejected, or put on hold/passed to the larger
developer body for resolution. Languishing as wishlist bugs on the
policy does no good.
The people who would like to have the FHS included in the
policy package should then work towards bringing the proposal in
BUG#25533 to fruition.
I shall be submitting a number of the proposals on the backlog
up here for resolution (like, asking for seconds, and determingin a
time fromae for discusssion, etc), since someones gotta do it.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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