Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:38:22PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> We have mostly settled the /usr/share/locale question, and apparently
> /usr/share/doc is a special exception anyway....
No, it is not. The ubiquity of /usr/share/doc provides the *rationale* for
multiarch handling /usr/share in a way that doesn't require splitting out
common packages, but dpkg will not handle /usr/share/doc differently than
any other files.
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