Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
>
> Santiago> BTW: For those who are so clueless that didn't realize yet
> Santiago> that docs are now in /usr/share/doc, a /usr/doc ->
> Santiago> /usr/share/doc symlink should be enough, not a /usr/doc
> Santiago> fully populated by symlinks, which is a little bit absurd.
>
> This paragraph is the reason that oen should follow carefully
> crafted solutions to the transition, rather than listen to half baked
> solutions. You pay no attention to what impact this shall have on
> the package postinsts.
>
> Some packages carefully clean up old dirs in /usr/doc; moving
> them to subdirs of /usr/share/doc/$package, and then removing
> /usr/doc/$package/ and replacing the old dir with a symbolic link.
>
> All legal under current policy.
Could you please give an example of such package?
Does dpkg not break horribly in such case?
> And all hell breaks lose if you replace /usr/doc by a link to
> /usr/share/doc.
Some people did the symlink a long time ago, and apparently there is
not such a breakage.
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