Re: Bug#1887: cfengine 1.2.14-2: documentation errors

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#1887: cfengine 1.2.14-2: documentation errors"):
> In my own packages, I've been trying to provide debianized docs
> which change references to /usr/local to just plain /usr where
> it's clear from the context that this would be incorrect on
> a debian system.  I've come to think that even this amount of
> twiddling the upstream docs may be too much, and debian would
> be better off to adopt a policy of leaving such references
> untouched and providing clear info in system docs that such
> references in debian package docs should be taken as references
> to files in /usr, and not in /usr/local.

We should document what we ship as we ship it.

Ian.