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

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Joey Hess 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.

Still busy doing this ;-)

> >  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

Okay, I don't read it currently.

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

Actually I read these carefully, but I must have overlooked this
particular announcement, because I just discovered it in the web
archives of DWN.

> > 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.

 Thank you very much,

  Ulf