Franklin Belew wrote: > People seem to be too caught up in other people's "freedom" to help us > create the best distro with the least problems. Example: > /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition voted to be held because potato was > supposed to freeze back in november. > Freeze got delayed, and 4+ months later, no one has taken this transition > seriously. I am to assume that all debian developers are mature individuals > who understand the concept of deadlines, yet giving this much slack only > causes the releases to be later and later.
No Frank. We made a decision which included a transition plan[1]. That transition plan intentionally spanned multiple debian releases: - In potato, /usr/doc is still going to be used, and anything using /usr/share/doc must include a /usr/doc symlink. - In woody, /usr/share/doc will be used, and all packages will be updated to use it. Packages will still provide /usr/doc links for backwards compatability. - In woody+1, the /usr/doc symlinks may be removed. Given that this transition is expected to span 3 releases, no, we arn't being laggards about transitioning to /usr/share/doc/ right this instant. The timeslines of the individual releases are orthagonal to this transition. -- see shy jo [1] http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html