Re: /usr/share/doc (was Re: weekly policy summary)
Hi,
>>"Giuliano" == Giuliano Procida <myxie@debian.org> writes:
Giuliano> Has no one seriously considered the mess that will happen
Giuliano> if you try to follow this path (namely, making each package
Giuliano> manage the transition by itself)? Think about all the typos
Giuliano> (like "[-L foo]") that people are going to make, the number
Giuliano> of link-handling scripts that bomb out or do the wrong
Giuliano> thing, the number of unwanted symlinks that will be lying
Giuliano> around once the dust settles, and the crap that will live
Giuliano> in the maintainer scripts forever (well, a long
Giuliano> time). Think about how few maintainers test their scripts
Giuliano> exhaustively (for idempotency etc.) (when doing upgrade,
Giuliano> new install, failed-upgrade, configure, remove, purge,
Giuliano> etc.).
We would liek to think that fellow maintainers are total
incompetents and can manage a simple symlink. Espescially as the
code to do so would have been published widely.
Giuliano> I will oppose the proposal unless it contains code
Giuliano> fragments that a) have been thoroughly tested, b) have been
Giuliano> shown to be the only real solution, and c) will be
Giuliano> mandated.
The proposal is dead, anyway.
Giuliano> Unfortunately, various people have pre-empted the policy
Giuliano> discussion and have started using /usr/share/doc already.
There is no policy prohibiting such a move, on the ocntrary,
policy dictates that a move like that happen.
manoj
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