Re: Policy for /usr/doc/<pkg-name>-doc

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr>]

On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 05:50:32PM +0000, Rob Browning wrote:

> But what about the copyright file of the -doc package?  If you use the
> symlink approach, then there you've got a namespace collision between
> /usr/doc/package-doc/copyright and /usr/doc/package/copyright.  If you
> just leave the copyright file out of the -doc package, that's a no-no
> -- at least when the -doc package is standalone.

What about this: /usr/doc/<package>-doc has to exist and it has to be a real
directory, it can't be a symlink into /usr/doc/<package>. The package
<package>-doc puts files/directories in /usr/doc/<package> or a symlink in
/usr/doc/<package> pointing to /usr/doc/<package>-doc


					Marcelo