Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:04:53AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > > since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > > No, it's not in policy yet. Sorry, I meant to say "yes you can". But it should become policy soon, so tha

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Josip Rodin wrote: > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. No, it's not in policy yet. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes fo

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 09:24:48PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > >> Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > > > > > >Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > > >since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > > > > Okay, the

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
would be nice to have the compatibility stuff in one seperate package. e.g. one package, that symlinks /usr/share/doc to /usr/doc, /usr/share/man to /usr/man, /usr/share/info to /usr/info. remember that we want to get rid of the old stuff at some point, and this should be as smoth as possible. doi

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 07:48:54AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > > Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > > > > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > > since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > > > > > Can I upload packag

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > since long time ago, IIRC before h

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 09:24:48PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > >> Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > > > >Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory > >since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > > Okay, then I propose th

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: >> Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > >Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory >since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.

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Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory since long time ago, IIRC before hamm. > Can I upload packages with the /usr/man ->

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0200, Christian Leutloff wrote: > > So it would be very good to hear from people: what problems are we > > likely to face in the move, how can we do it without destroying 2500+ > > packages, etc., etc. > > Why not integrating tests for the FHS compliance into li

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > As nobody has yet argued against my policy proposal of adopting the > FHS, it is likely to become policy quite soon. So we need to start > actively thinking about how to go about managing the changeover, and > which exceptions we will make. > > A quick

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Christian Leutloff
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it would be very good to hear from people: what problems are we > likely to face in the move, how can we do it without destroying 2500+ > packages, etc., etc. Why not integrating tests for the FHS compliance into lintian!? First they are warnings and

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 1999-05-24, Julian Gilbey écrivait : > AFAIK, the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info is well under way, as is > /usr/lib/texmf -> /usr/share/texmf. sgml-tools has a longstanding bug on this problem (#35965), opened on Apr. 12th. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.fdn.fr/~tquinot/>

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:09:05AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > We may need some mass NMU's, but it would be nice if that could be > avoided. We shouldn't need those. The only thing I expect that would take mass NMUs is the /usr/doc and /usr/man things. Both should be possible to happen over ti