Bug#40706: AMENDMENT 17/7/99] /usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc transition

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

 Santiago> This is a high price to pay, very high.

        Adding a stanza to a couple of files too high a price to pay?
 
        Your solution ignores all the points made in the proposal:

        * The transition may take a long time, going by previous
          transitions, and not all packages are upgraded anywhere near
          simultaneously.

          I think that expecting _*all*_ packages to have moved before we
          release potato is futile, unless we do not plan on releasing
          potato for 18 months or so. We *_cannot_* expect to get FHS
          compliance in place by potato.

        * We should not break backwards compatibility during the transition
          period. This is a quality of implementation issue

          During the transition, we need to provide backwards
          compatibility, firstly for programs ike `dwww', and `dhelp', and
          also for our users who have gotten used to looking under a single
          dir (`/usr/doc/') for docs (`/usr/doc/`package''). During the
          transition, the documentation could be in in two places, and that
          is not good

        Against this, I do not think that this is too much to ask for.

        manoj
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