On 2001-10-26, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote: > Comment 1: If 99,99% of packages have their docs in /usr/share/doc we > should modify policy so that symlinks from /usr/doc are no longer > required. For woody, we can rely on docs being in a single location > again, namely, /usr/share/doc, so symlinks are completely useless at > this point. If my memory sverves correctly, policy is frozen already, and this is not really a RC measure, for the plans were that the release woody+1 be completely /usr/doc/-free. [further comments snipped] > Packages should stop creating symlinks in either case, and that's > enough for having an empty /usr/doc directory. If you want the process > to go faster, you can always remove the symlinks yourself if it > bothers so much. a) Keep in mind that this (in combination with the policy modification) would result in a lot of RC bugs, which will postpone the release of woody even further. b) Removing the symlinks won't stop dpkg from running a (not yet) unnecessary postinst, which was what Joey (and I - faster upgrades ho!) wants. It's nice to have a fully FHS-compliant system, but for woody, the goal was near-FHS compliance and backwards-compatibility for users who still use the old locations. -- Andreas Fuchs, <asf@acm.org>, asf@jabber.at, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
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