On Wed, 28 May 1997, Brian White wrote: > > > In fact, as part of the Deity project, I'd like to do something a little > > > more elaborate. I'd like to be able to remove or change any arbitrary > > > path. (This was originally Behan's idea, actually.) > > > > Ok, then I'd suggest I change the proposed section in our Policy to state > > that currently, directories in /usr/local have to be created in postinst > > (that's the only possibility _now_) but this will change in the near > > future when this feature is added to dpkg/deity. > > Well, since it's too late for this to have any effect on Bo and this > should be easily done before Hamm gets released, I don't see how this > will accomplish anything as far as the "public" user base is concerned.
It's just a matter of documentation. Creating the empty directories in the postinst scripts is what our packages are currently doing since this has been proposed on debian-devel. Thus, I want to document this "implicit" policy. With the note I added about the new feature maintainers should realize that our current solution is just a workaround. If dpkg/deity has this feature implemented, I'll change the policy to the new scheme. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian is looking [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a logo! Have a look at our drafts PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA at http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .