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Re: More FHS stuff



On debian-policy, Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
> What is the status of accepted policy amendments which have not yet
> been incorporated into policy?
> 
> In other words, is it OK to announce the move to FHS on
> -devel-announce so that developers can start making the necessary
> changes to their packages?

Over half of Debian is using debhelper. Joey Hess says he will change it to do
FHS stuff once FHS is policy. Hope that is useful. When can I upload packages
with /usr/doc moved to /usr/share/doc, should I wait until Joey changes
debhelper or should I hack it (all my packages are debhelper)? I think I will
wait, but freeze is drawning near. I think that I agree with Joey that policy
should be changed before FHS packages are uploaded.

We need some lintian check as well. Not just file positioning, but references
as well. All /usr/doc/$PACKAGE in man pages must change. Every GPL package
must have /usr/doc/$PACKAGE/copyright modified to stop pointing at
/usr/doc/copyright and point to /usr/share/copyright/GPL instead (that is
where copyrights are going right?).

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