Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink
(following up from -mentors, where this is no longer on-topic)
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 27-Apr-2002 Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp> cum veritate scripsit:
> >
> >> Suppose that a source package makes two .deb, "package-data" and "package"
> >> (which depends on "package-data"), and /usr/share/doc/package is a symlink
> >> to /usr/share/doc/package-data . Should "package" depend on exactly the
> >> same version of "package-data"?
> >
> > Why do you have to make it a symlink at all ?
> >
> > By doing that you are distributing a .deb file
> > which does not contain copyright information, etc.
> >
>
> it is legal *IFF* the package depends on another package from the same source.
>
>
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