Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and
> > upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not
> > have symlinks in place of these and perhaps an extra /usr/share/doc
> > directory named the same as the source package in case a binary
> > package of the same name doesn't exist.
> >
> > Maybe this is not the right time but then maybe someone should
> > convince me that I'm proposing a bad idea.
>
>   the problem is, you can only do that if you have one of the binary
> package that is always installed with any of the other, else you will
> have dangling symlinks, and it's prohibited by the policy (no to mention
> that it would be quite useless !)

Why not have an extra /usr/share/doc/$source-name directory in case a
binary package of the same name doesn't exist or is not found to be
installed. This would be a problem when dependencies change, but on
package removal, /usr/share/doc/$source-name would be left alone if
there remains binary packages built from that source package.

Sorry if I seem to disregard the rest of your mail...