Re: Policy for /usr/doc/<pkg-name>-doc
As a user I prefer that /usr/doc/<pkgname>-doc be a link to
/usr/doc/<pkgname>, then the extra docs fall under somthing like this
/usr/doc/<pkgname>/{html,extra-docs,examples,programing} or whatever
depending on what the extra docs are for. This leaves everything in one
place that has to do with the package and no one has to go looking for 2
or 3 document directories.
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Ben Collins <b.m.collins@larc.nasa.gov>
UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc.
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>
> I just realized that there is no uniformity in Debian as regards the
> place for package additional documentation. The Debian Policy is not
> clear on this issue:
>
> <quote>
> 6.3 Additional documentation
>
> Any additional documentation that comes with the package can be
> installed at the discretion of the package maintainer. Text
> documentation should be installed in a directory /usr/doc/package,
> where package is the name of the package, and compressed with gzip -9
> unless it is small.
>
> If a package comes with large amounts of documentation which many
> users of the package will not require you should create a separate
> binary package to contain it, so that it does not take up disk space
> on the machines of users who do not need or want it installed.
> </quote>
>
> When a new package <pkg-name>-doc is created, where should it put the
> files, in /usr/doc/<pkg-name> or in /usr/doc/<pkg-name>-doc? My
> preference is to put it in /usr/doc/<pkg-name>, but as my preference is
> not necessarily good taste, I wrote a small script to check what the
> packages *-doc packages in slink do. The results are at the end of this
> post. It appears that there is a preference for /usr/doc/<pkg-name>-doc
> (65%).
>
> Should the Debian Policy state which is the prefered behavior?
>
> --
> Rafael Laboissiere, Debian developer.
>
>
> ===========================================================================
> [ WARNING: I did not check this results by hand, they were generated
> automaticaly by a script, so errors may exist.]
>
> Packages that put additional documentation under /usr/doc/<pkg-name>
>
> aegis-doc felt-doc kbackup-doc pact-doc wine-doc
> apache-doc gwm-doc libhdf4g-doc plplot-doc xcin-doc
> bind-doc hugs-doc lprng-doc python-doc xconq-doc
> cook-doc hylafax-doc musixtex-doc swig-doc xntp3-doc
> dotfile-doc ilu-doc nas-doc the-doc xv-doc
>
>
> Packages that put additional documentation under /usr/doc/<pkg-name>-doc
>
> angband-doc icon-doc libpwdb-doc povray-doc vis5d-doc
> crossfire-doc ivtools-doc m4-doc ptx-doc vnc-doc
> diff-doc lapack-doc make-doc qt-doc wdiff-doc
> docbook-doc lclint-doc mesa-doc r5rs-doc wordnet-doc
> dstool-doc libc6-doc msql-doc recode-doc wxftp-doc
> dstooltk-doc libforms-doc mysql-doc samba-doc xfig-doc
> exim-doc libggi-doc netcdf-doc scilab-doc zephyr-doc
> flex-doc libgtk-doc octave-doc snns-doc
> gettext-doc libmpeg-doc php3-doc solid-doc
> glut-doc libpam-doc postgresql-doc tetex-doc
>
>
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