Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:01:35AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I just upgraded my unstable system today. In the process, my /usr/doc
> > -> /usr/share/doc symlink disappeared. I didn't notice till
> > afterwards, but I'm pretty sure that's what did it. (It was there
> > yesterday, and it's unlikely to have been anything else.)
> >
> > Below is the diff between yesterday and today's dpkg -l \* | grep ^ii
> > output; I haven't had a chance to examine all of these packages,
> > though. Anyone have any ideas which package might be guilty for doing
> > this?
>
> Every of them. None of them. Most probably, you just happened to
> remove or upgrade the last package containing /usr/doc in your system,
> and, as a result, dpkg removed it, since it was not a non-empty directory.
What happened to the transition plan that said we'd ship woody with a
/usr/doc full of symlinks, not no /usr/doc at all?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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