Re: Debian Bugs information: logs for Bug#49793

[Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>]

Hi *, 

I think this should be discussed in public:

Sebastien Chaumat wrote:

>  When installing (apt-get install dhelp) dhelp,
>  the content of /usr/share/doc/HTML is erased.
>  For example the kde packages install their doc in this directory. 

Marco Budde answered:

> Ok, than please fill a bug report against these packages. doc/HTML
> shouldn´t be used by other packages than dhelp. Could you please
> send me the names of the packages (versions) and maybe the names
> of their Debian maintainers?

Why the heck can a package maintainer just claim a directory for his 
package? Marco added that he will put a README file there but I don't 
think this behaviour is rightful.

If the directory were /usr/share/doc/dhelp or similar but I don't expect
anything to delete from /usr/share/doc/HTML. In fact I did not notice 
myself but some people complained that files disappeared from there. 
They installed some HTML documents in that directory thinking this is okay.

I agree that the README will solve that problem. Still I am all for a 
better solution. If dhelp needs some database of the files it generated 
to be able to delete only those files I could help to write such a feature.

The current behaviour is unintuitive and imho this is bad for Debian.

Thanks

    Torsten

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Torsten Landschoff           Bluehorn@IRC               <torsten@debian.org>
           Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Commitee Member