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Re: Bug#62352: usr/doc and /usr/share/doc confusion



On 13 Apr 2000, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:

> peterc@aurema.com writes:
> 
> > Package: general
> > Version: potato
> > 
> > New documentation is being installed in /usr/share/doc (whereas it was 
> > installed in /usr/doc in the slink release)  
> > 
> > This is fine, except that the default apache config still sets /doc/
> > URLs to /usr/doc
 

> If there is documentation in /usr/share/doc but not in /usr/doc (as a
> symlink), that package is broken.

On a recently (15 minutes ago) updated Potato system I get the following:

bartjan@spiderwebs:/usr/share/doc$dpkg -l|wc -l
    923
bartjan@spiderwebs:/usr/share/doc$/bin/ls | xargs -i ls -ld /usr/doc/{} > /dev/null
ls: /usr/doc/3c5x9utils: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/bison: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/bladeenc: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/cdtool: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/dftp: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/dpkg-perl: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/glut-doc: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/icewm-gnome: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/jdk1.1: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/jdk1.1-dev: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.14: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/libcgicg1: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/libcomerr2: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/libgsm1: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/libguile6-slib: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/libss2: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/linbot: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/linpopup: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/mysql: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/newsgate: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/pstotext: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/ripenc: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/shaper: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/squidclient: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/vrms: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/wdm: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/workbone: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/xfractint: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/xmcd: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/doc/zlib1: No such file or directory
bartjan@spiderwebs:/usr/share/doc$

Does this mean that above packages are broken ??

-- 
Tot ziens,

Bart-Jan


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