Richard> The PPP package has /etc/ppp/README which is a symlink to a
Richard> file in /usr/doc.
I consider those links as a bad idea. dpkg provides the -L switch;
voila, there's all you need:
# dpkg -L sysvinit | egrep 'doc|README'
/etc/init.d/README
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/copyright
/usr/doc/copyright/sysvinit
README files have to go to /usr/doc/... .