On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:33:58PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > What is a graceful failure for some script is a crash for another... > > I would be happy to reduce the expectations of the language here; when I said > "gracefully" here, the only case I had in mind was "doesn't fail silently" > (e.g. just exiting or having a menu item silently fail, without showing any > message).
What is missing in this policy proposal from my point of view, is what the Debian maintainer is expected to do if the upstream software does not follow it. For /usr/share/doc/$pkg, it is easy to move the files to /usr/share/$pkg. But for /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info, what to do ? Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is removed, so I wonder how far we can actually validate this. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
