[PROPOSAL] Debian should require FHS 2.3 instead of 2.1

[Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello,

current Debian Policy requires the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS),
version 2.1, http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.1
This version is rather old (2001) and is superseded by FHS 2.2 and since
today by FHS 2.3.

The changes between 2.1 and 2.2 can be found in Debian bug 212434
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=212434
and (if I'm not mistaken) require only the change required is:
 | o /var/lib/hwclock explicitly added for adjtime.
 In FHS 2.1 this was /etc/adjtime, bug 156489
and mtools already violate 2.1 by following 2.2.


The FHS 2.3 (and 2.2) can be found here:
  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

The list of changes can be found here:
 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/announce-2.3.html

This proposal can be found in Debian bug 230217
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=230217


Changes relevant to Debian:
  | Add /media
  | Add /srv
  These were accepted by Debian (cf. debian-lsb,
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3699684&forum_id=3128 )

  | Adding /usr/local/share and /usr/local/share/man
  | Allow /usr/local/etc:
  This should not pose a problem.


Regards,

Tobias