Hi, >>"Giuliano" == Giuliano Procida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Giuliano> Has no one seriously considered the mess that will happen Giuliano> if you try to follow this path (namely, making each package Giuliano> manage the transition by itself)? Think about all the typos Giuliano> (like "[-L foo]") that people are going to make, the number Giuliano> of link-handling scripts that bomb out or do the wrong Giuliano> thing, the number of unwanted symlinks that will be lying Giuliano> around once the dust settles, and the crap that will live Giuliano> in the maintainer scripts forever (well, a long Giuliano> time). Think about how few maintainers test their scripts Giuliano> exhaustively (for idempotency etc.) (when doing upgrade, Giuliano> new install, failed-upgrade, configure, remove, purge, Giuliano> etc.). We would liek to think that fellow maintainers are total incompetents and can manage a simple symlink. Espescially as the code to do so would have been published widely. Giuliano> I will oppose the proposal unless it contains code Giuliano> fragments that a) have been thoroughly tested, b) have been Giuliano> shown to be the only real solution, and c) will be Giuliano> mandated. The proposal is dead, anyway. Giuliano> Unfortunately, various people have pre-empted the policy Giuliano> discussion and have started using /usr/share/doc already. There is no policy prohibiting such a move, on the ocntrary, policy dictates that a move like that happen. manoj -- Fresco's Discovery: If you knew what you were doing you'd probably be bored. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E