Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
Joey> Can you even guarantee that all the postinsts in Debian will deal
Joey> correctly with a missing /usr/doc? That code path has not had much
Joey> testing.
I think it is reasonable to expect a package to be able to do
rm -rf /usr/doc/$package; ln -s ../share/doc/$package /usr/doc/$package
in current policy.
When writing standards documents, and policies, you need to
not just care for the most common case and ignore the outliers.
Joey> [1] Except for in postinsts written by Manoj, perhaps.
Hey. Stop it with comments about my postinst ;-) At least they
are robust.
manoj
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