Bug#787816: Replace FHS 2.3 by FHS 3.0 in the Policy.

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 20:43:10 +0900 Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal
> 
> Le Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 07:09:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> > I have not looked at this at all, but this list should be aware that it
> > exists.
> 
> > Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:19:04 -0400
> > Subject: [fhs-discuss] FHS 3.0
> > 
> > The LSB workgroup is happy to announce the release of FHS 3.0.
> ... 
> > Release notes can be found here:
> > 
> > https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/FHSReleaseNotes30
> 
> Thanks Russ for the heads-up.
> 
> Judging from the release notes, it would not be too hard to update the Policy's
> description of how Debian follows and deviates from the FHS.
> 
> By the way, I wonder if the debian-policy package is the best place for
> shipping a copy of the FHS.  I just checked out the bzr repository that
> contains its sources, and it builds out of the box (build-depends on xmlto and
> fop).  Perhaps it would deserve its own package ?
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> Charles
> 
> -- 
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
> 
> 

Hi,

I would like to see FHS 3.0 adopted as well.  Or an 2.3 exception to
allow the use of /usr/libexec.

Thanks,
~Niels