Re: /usr/doc/copyright/<package> -> /usr/doc/<package>/copyright ?
> It's nice to have all these files in the same directory, but people
> are starting to do things like having /usr/doc/foo/REAMDE be a link to
> /usr/doc/copyright/foo or vice versa, and splitting the documentation
> for a package up across several directories doesn't seem to work very
> well.
This symlinking is bad (IMHO). The place of copyright stuff is documented
in Debian FAQ (or somewhere else or it should be documented) and is there
for quite some time now. Keep it that way.
> Should we move the copyright file (and the examples directory) into
> the per-package directory in /usr/doc ?
No, the /usr/doc/<package> dir is a dir which normally comes with all
stuff in it gzipped and I think we should keep it like that. We can not
gzip copyright files (this has been decided/mandated long ago) so I
think it isn't good to put an ungezipped file in there.
Minor argument is that the current approach is space saving. If no
documentation comes with package an dir entry needs to be created for
its copyright file, when this is in /usr/doc/copyright this will not
be required.
I still think that copyright file can/should be autogenerated by the
package building process and provide a default part and a free part.
Check mailing archives if you want to know more on this.
Erick
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