Re: Intent To Split: netbase
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
> [Followups to debian-policy, please]
>
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > I think that some people are espousing non-compliance with the
> > standards. Is that what we want to do?
>
> The FHS exhaustively explains the difference between compatibility and
> compliance. I note that the Debian policy manual says that all installed
> files and directories "must comply" with the FHS, rather than "must be
> compatible" with the FHS.
>
> Let this message serve as policy proposal that we change the wording of
> section 3.1.1 from "must comply" to "must be compatible". This change
> needs to be made irrespective of any consensus (or lack thereof) on the
> issue moving binaries from (/usr)?/sbin to (/usr)?/bin, because we continue
> to carry around relics of non-FHS-compliance (such as /var/state) that may
> take quite some time to dislodge. (Witness the /usr/share/doc migration.)
I'll take this opportunity to remind the debian-policy editors of a
wishlist proposal to do just that: 60461.
-Steve
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