Re: new policy revision

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

Hi,
>>"Marco" == Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> writes:

 Marco> Did you look at the FHS 2.1 draft?

        I am aware of it, yes.

 Marco> Some of the new things in FHS 2.0 like /var/state have been
 Marco> removed from the standard and there is no point putting them
 Marco> in the policy.

        If you look into the current policy document, it says:
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     The location of all installed files and directories must comply (with
     some exceptions [1] ) with the Linux File system Hierarchy Standard
     (FHS). The latest version of this document can be found alongside this
     manual or on tsx-11.mit.edu in
     /pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd/. Specific questions about
     following the standard may be asked on `debian-devel', or referred to
     Daniel Quinlan, the FHS coordinator, at <quinlan@pathname.com>.

     [1]  In an as yet unreleased version of the standard, the location of
          the mail spool and state information directories has changed; and
          we proipose to follow the latter, since that would mean that we
          do not ahve to move things around again when the new version of
          the FHS comes around). The changes are, amongst others,
          s%/var/mail%/var/spool/mail% and s%/var/state%/var/lib%
______________________________________________________________________

        I think that covers it.

        manoj
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