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Re: Copyright file in multipart packages?



Zed Pobre <zed@moebius.interdestination.net> writes:

> doesn't work, since I'd want a symlink from iraf-common to iraf, and
> iraf would depend on iraf-common, not the other way around.

Why not just reverse the dependency?  Have iraf and everything else
depend on iraf-common.  Have iraf-common provide /usr/doc/iraf-common,
and have all the packages symlink to that.

>     If in fact that kind if symlinking is what is appropriate,
> however, how then does one handle the copyright file itself?

Just have one /usr/doc/iraf-common/copyright.

> And it doesn't seem appropriate in any case to symlink and then have
> a package with no actual copyright text in it.

Hmm.  I had just assumed that that would be OK, as long as the source
package has the copyright, and as long as it's not possible
(dependency-wise) to install a binary package such that
/usr/doc/package/copyright doesn't exist.

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