Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Santiago> A fresh woody install should *not* need symlinks in /usr/doc. > > And how is a package supposed to know that this is a fresh > woody install? This is way too late to go about creating policy for > postinsts now. This is not about creating new policy. In current policy the postinst checks for /usr/doc before making the symlink. If /usr/doc does not exist, no symlink is created.