Re: keeping files from one version to the other.
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:50:58PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:52:31PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > It seems to me that it would be overzealous to worry about that now...
> > > creating a special /usr/share/ppp directory (or whatever) just for this
> > > purpose, and linking the files in doc/ppp/examples to these.
> > >
> > > We can do it when (or if) dpkg starts supports exclusion of directories on
> > > installation.
> >
> > But when that happens, there may be a lot of work to do. Good for new
> > packages to be upgrade-ready.
>
> It doesn't make sense to plan ahead for a feature that may or may not ever
> exist. Since you don't know how it will be implemented, you would be guessing
> as to how to make your package support it.
This scenario turns out to have already happened in some places. At
the very least, it would be good for packages to not rely on the
existence of /usr/share/doc.
Julian
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