Bug#787816: Replace FHS 2.3 by FHS 3.0 in the Policy.
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 08:26:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> I would like to see FHS 3.0 adopted as well. Or an 2.3 exception to
> allow the use of /usr/libexec.
I assume if we allow /usr/libexec, we also need to support
/usr/libexec/x86_64-linux-gnu/ etc. ?
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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