severity 300765 wishlist thanks On 23 March 2005 at 02:41, Pierre THIERRY wrote: | Scribit Dirk Eddelbuettel dies 22/03/2005 hora 18:56: | > The FHS specifies a Policy that I see as mandatory for base + | > standard, and as an ideal to strive for for optional and extra | > packages. | | It's a very personal way of reading the policy! You could at least | discuss this on debian-devel. I insist: you do not have the right,
Feel free to bring it up with tech committee. I believe there is particular mailing list (debian-ctte) dedicated to such issues. | especially just before a release, to cheat and downgrade a clear RC bug. Get a life. R has been in Debian for about 7.5 years, and this "feature" was a constant during all those years. This is, as I explained at length, a design decision of the R upstream team which reflects both the multi-platform nature of R, and the fairly strong cohesion of the R system which has to make assumptions about where its files are. Severity reset to wishlist. As I said, I intend to address this for etch with the upstream authors. But not now, and not this way. Sorry. Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
