Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote:
>> + The location of all files and directories must comply with the >> + Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) > Unfortunately, I don't think that matches the old intent. This sounds > like a restriction on the admin. I'm particularly worried that people > could use this as justification for packages assuming that all files and > directories comply with the FHS, instead of coping with the real world Could you be more specific about exactly what behavior you're worried about? I thought about this for a while before making this change and can't think of any place where this would realistically affect packages. Note also that Policy is specifically Policy *for Debian packages*, so we don't need to worry that Policy imposes restrictions on what admins do. It can't; that's out of scope. > --- for example, we have traditionally treated files placed by admins as > worth keeping, even when put in areas outside /usr/local, /var/local, > /home, and /opt, like /usr/share/doc/<package> alongside the shipped > docs. That behavior is certainly consistent with the FHS! I don't see any change there. > So for what it's worth, without debugging I don't think this is a > non-normative change. So far, I don't agree.... -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqd0p339....@windlord.stanford.edu
