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Re: Preparing the Release / Freezing potato



Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:

>  . Our boot-floppies are not ready yet.  Freezing the distribution
>    without working boot-floppies will extend the freeze time which
>    would be a very bad idea.  Adam di Carlo today told me that he
>    doesn't believe that our boot-floppies will be read before
>    January.  (Since I haven't been able to work on them I can't say
>    anything about that.)

To me it makes no sense to bother freezing until we have working
boot-floppies.  If we don't, then the freeze should wait.

>  . I still haven't seen an announcement what to do with the FHS
>    transition and which policy versions should be used for potato
>    packages.  Additionaly when I have asked other developers they
>    could only shrug their head.
> 
>    There *is* confusion wether to use /usr/share/man or /usr/man,
>    /usr/share/info or /usr/info and /usr/share/doc or /usr/doc, also
>    where, if and when to add softlinks somewhere.

Same here.  I have no idea what's been decided.

FWIW.

-- 
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930


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