Bug#1928: usr/lib/cvs incomplete
>> It appears that the cvs binary installation does not install several
>> files in /usr/lib/cvs that are necessary to create the repository.
>> This causes cvs to have incorrect assumptions about the state of the
>> repository when it is first created (per instructions for CVS's
>> documentation). It appears that /usr/doc/cvs contains all the files
>> that /usr/lib/cvs is supposed to have. A temporary fix is to change
>> debian.postinst to 'cp -r /usr/doc/cvs/* /usr/lib/cvs'.
>Thanks for the info. I'm not a CVS user, and it'll take me a while
>to sort out what's required to run the basic distribution and what's
>optional user-contributed stuff. My intention was to install the
>basic CVS stuff as the default and put the user-contrib stuff in
>/usr/doc/cvs. If you can help me sort this out, it'll speed up
>a fix to the package.
What, is this just a straight package from the GNU CVS distribution
then? I've got a fair amount of RCS and CVS experience; I wouldn't
mind taking up that package and forming it to the Debian filesystem.
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