Re: New policy locations for docs

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> *- On  6 Nov, Roland Rosenfeld wrote about "Re: New policy locations for docs"
> > Mike Markley <mike@markley.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> OK, I'm looking at the policy manual and while I do see the
> >> /usr/share/doc thing, I don't see any mention of symlinks to
> >> /usr/doc either way. Are we allowed to symlink
> >> /usr/share/doc/package to /usr/doc/package?
> > 
> > No, it's strictly forbidden.  You should link /usr/doc/package to
> > /usr/share/doc/package in postinst (and remove it in prerm).
> > 
> > Please have a look at policy 3.1, which is in Incoming at the moment:
> > 
> 
> Does anyone else see a problem with this?  THE document mandating how to
> have a smooth upgrade to the FHS and potato will not be in potato
> because it is stuck in Incoming. Or does this get special treatment?
> 
> Just a lusers observation.

I only uploaded it 2 minutes before I wrote the email ;)
It's now in the archive.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg