Santiago Vila wrote: > First, there is no hurry for this. Second, it would probably take only > one more release if we stop using symlinks right now. I already made a > policy proposal to stop using symlinks, but there were objections from > Manoj and Raul
I'm sure they objected since dropping symlinks right now would completly ignore the entire point of the technical committee's decision. You would have some documentation only in /usr/doc and some only in /usr/share/doc. I'm sorry, but that is unacceptable. > what do they think about this single-script idea which > is clearly against what the T.C. decided? (I guess they are on vacation). Since the situation has changed since their decision, a new method which takes advantage of the change in the situation should be ok, I think. > I do not follow your argument, anyway: If 6 people fix one package a > day until woody is frozen, everything will be (physically) in > /usr/share/doc at release time. Indeed yes. Are you volenteering to be one of the six? I didn't get any volenteers last time. > You can be done today if you want (just use your script in *your* > system, at your *own* risk), but this does not necessarily mean we > have to risk hundreds of thousand of systems out there which do not have > a real need to be converted in a single step. I'd like to see your source of numbers that hundreds of thousands of people track unstable. I don't understand why you are assuming that any bugs that turn up in the script won't be fixable anyway. It's not as if a temporary problem with /usr/doc is going to cripple a debian system. -- see shy jo
