severity 10044 important tags 10044 + help thanks On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> severity 10044 serious > thanks > > Hi, > > This bug is quite old and violates section 9.1.1 of the Debian Policy > [1] and 5 (c) of the Etch release policy [2]. > > Marc > > Footnotes: > [1] "The location of all installed files and directories must comply with > the File system Hierarchy Standard (FHS), version 2.1, except where > doing so would violate other terms of Debian Policy." Hmm, "other terms of Debian Policy". What about "smooth upgrades"? Just moving to FHS would be "easy". Basically, it would be a matter of changing /var/list to /var/lib/smartlist everywhere. The bad news are: a) base-passwd has /var/list as the home directory for the user "list". If this is changed to /var/lib/smartlist, existing lists in /var/list will stop working, so this is going to be very tricky. As a result: b) Moving to FHS locations will break upgrades *horribly*. This bug was "severitty: wishlist" because, according to the definition, wishlist is also ok "for any bugs that are very difficult to fix due to major design considerations". So until we find a way to solve these issues, there will not be a FHS-compliant smartlist package. If you want to be constructive, find someone who has a bright idea to deal with the issues I've explained. While I agree that FHS compliance is a sign of quality, I don't think our users deserve that this package disappear if we can't fix this particular bug, so I'm downgrading to non-RC. I'm upgrading it from wishlist, however, to acknowledge that something should be done about it. i.e. try to fix it to have a more clear idea of what will go wrong during an upgrade. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
