Re: New filesystem standard - do we want it ?

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Andreas Jellinghaus:
> > please split hamm into two distributions :
> > hamm/unstable and hamm-unstable/fhs-unstable (maybe you have better names).
> 
> I'm afraid I think this is a stunningly bad idea.

Exactly.

With the introduction of FHS, we'll increment the policy version to
2.4.x.x or 3.x.x.x. With that, you just have to check the
Standards-Version field of a package to know if it is FHS or FSSTND
compliant.


Thanks,

Chris

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