On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:49:49PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > Then someone needs to come up with a solution, NOW. Not in a month, not > > in three months, not after we release potato. I don't like having two doc > > directories to look in either, but we seem to be running out of other > > options. > > Uh? That's not true. The symlink answer works. We haven't agreed to use it. And we need to NOW if we're going to. Many packages use /usr/share/doc already without any transition happening. Some because policy doesn't mention a transition, and some to simply to force the issue to be settled as soon as someone realizes that it's too late to make a smooth transition. There are probably enough packages now using /usr/share/doc that they have decided the transition issue for us. > And this was handled pretty bad: > > 1) The update to the policy was obviously bad. It needed more discussion. > Bad for the policy editors. We discussed it. At length. We did not consider the problem with /usr/doc moving. (we did consider /var/lib) > 2) People used the `formal objection' mechanism to stop the answer just > because the didn't like. I don't think this was right. And the people who > did it are starting to realize that too.. =) too-many-chiefs syndrome, I think the policy mechanism has shown itself to be open to blatant abuse. > 3) If this `formal obection' mechanism worked this way here, then it's badly > designed. People can use it for normal votes... so if 40 people likes a > proposal and 5 don't the proposal get dumped. Agreed. > 4) I didn't like the reasons given at all. Optimization is the mother of > disaster.. (why don't we design a package format using 4 bits for the > package section, 1 bit for... =) ). Having a prerm script for a long time is > a bad thing? a price too high? come on! Having to add 2 or 3 lines to a > debian/rules is too much work for a maintainer? come on! I think the ordered > list of priorities to take into account should be made a policy document... > =) (humm.. perhaps that's not a bad idea after all...) Yeah, I thought the objections were a little lame myself, but then again it's not my position to decide what is or isn't a good reason to object to a proposal. But then as I said it's almost too late to implment this now. While we've been fighting about it on -policy, many others were simply uploading packages with /usr/share/doc. If this pattern continues as I am certain it will, it'll be too late to have a transition of any sort. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There Is No Cabal.
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