Re: /usr/doc symlinks
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:26:03 -0400, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> said:
>
> > Santiago Vila wrote:
> >> Does anyone have a good estimation about the number of packages
> >> which currently do this? (That is, assume *blindly* that /usr/doc
> >> exists).
>
> > Packages that
>
> > a) don't use debconf ( < 5%)
> > b) have not completed the transition yet (85 of 657 here)
> > c) happen to be written by Manoj? :-)
>
> Say what now? Do you have any concrete examples, or is this
> just humour that has missed my funny bone (well, I do see the smiley,
> but my chain is easily jerked when talking about flaws in my
> packages)? If you know of any cases in which my packages transgress,
> please file a bug.
It's clearly a joke, Manoj.
I'll rephrase my question:
May I consider buggy any package in current testing that assumes
blindly (in its maintainers scripts) that /usr/doc exists?
That we can (or not) get rid of /usr/doc for new installs of sarge
depends on this.
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