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Re: is it time for /usr/share/doc?



Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
>  I noticed that more and more packages move their doc files to /usr/share/doc,
>  leaving all kinds of problems with the old one, e.g. empty directories,
>  broken links, directories with only one file, ...

File bug reports for all of these things. Any packages exhibiting such
behavior are broken.

>  Did I miss the final say on this?

Yes. On my system about 1/5th of the packages are already converted.

> Where was it announced?

Debian-policy and later DWN. Perhaps debian-devel-announce as well, I forget.

> And should I do this for my packages?

That depends, the result leaves some leeway and doesn't force anyone to do
it just yet.

-- 
see shy jo


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