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



Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> 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.

This has now been merged for the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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