Bug#657904: converting /usr/share/doc/console-setup into a symlink
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:27:16PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
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> I think personally I would prefer undoing this symlink mess
> altogether. Not sure what others think...
Symlinks are there in order to
1. Simplify the maintaining of the package, as there is no need to take
care of too many directories and what goes where (there have errors in
the past caused by too many binary packages built by console-setup and
having to watch too many files if they need to be updated).
2. Help the user find the documentation. What can be a problem for the
maintainer is most certainly a bigger problem for the casual user who
has to dig into various directories and combine the split information.
3. In some cases separate directories lead to artificial and unnecessary
split of the information.
If the patch of Sven works, it is going to save us from lots of future
headaches.
Anton Zinoviev
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