Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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?
Nothing. Note that Julian had a /usr/doc -> share/doc symlink. He didn't
have a /usr/doc directory.
I'm not certain what dpkg would do in this case, when no more packages are in
/usr/doc, and it is a symlink.
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