Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:25:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote:
> ROTFL, why should I change dhelp to support a broken file format?
How is the doc-base file format broken?
> Please tell me what for do we need doc-base?
It's a useful abstraction over specific documentation systems.
> In fact the format has got a lot of disadvantages.
What are they?
> No. We need a decision: which one is the *main* doc directory. Which one
> should the user use. At the moment I would suggest /usr/share/doc.
/usr/doc is the main doc directory. Packages that use /usr/share/doc must
install a symlink to /usr/doc.
> ??? But we use /usr/share/doc. Read the policy.
Read the policy list. Current policy documents are lacking, as they don't
document the tech committee decision (yet).
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