Bug#594658: debian-policy: Add FHS exception for GNU/Hurd directories

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:57:50 +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 17:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Our footnote system is not great, so I'd keep it as one footnote.  I agree
> > with putting GNU/Hurd first, but I'd like to keep the structure of listing
> > the exceptions after a colon to match the other item.  So, how about:
> > 
> >     On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional directories are allowed
> >     in the root filesystem: <file>/hurd</file> and <file>/servers</file>.
> >     <footnote>
> >       These directories are used to store translators and as a set of
> >       standard names for mount points, respectively.
> >     </footnote>
> 
> All good reasons so let's go with that one then.

Yeah, agreed. Given that it seems the wording has been transferred to
Russ now, :) I'll happily second it if there's the need, but I'm not
sure how you want to handle that, any way is fine by me though.

thanks,
guillem