Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
>> Some packages carefully clean up old dirs in /usr/doc; moving
>> them to subdirs of /usr/share/doc/$package, and then removing
>> /usr/doc/$package/ and replacing the old dir with a symbolic link.
>>
>> All legal under current policy.
Santiago> Could you please give an example of such package?
Santiago> Does dpkg not break horribly in such case?
Packkages which move /usr/doc/$package dirs to subdirs in
/usr/share/doc/$package are:
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angband, angband-doc, c2man, cvs-buildpackage, dist, flex, gnus,
kernel-package, latex2html, libcgi-perl, mailagent, make, pkg-order,
psgml, vm
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There is no breakage in dpkg for any of these.
Of course, these packages in particular do try to handle
exceptional conditions, but we can not preclude the possibility of
some other package not in the list above that may not be as careful.
manoj
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