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Re: /usr/share/doc/LANG/, non-english documentation



OoO Pendant  le journal télévisé du  lundi 02 février  2009, vers 20:25,
Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> disait :

> Context: bug#513898

> There seem to be a few packages that install non-english documentation
> in /usr/share/doc/LANG/${ll}/${pkgname}

> where ${ll} is the two-letter language code and ${pkgname} the package
> name. But it - by far - is not all packages that provide non-english
> documentation.

> I cannot find anything about /usr/share/doc/LANG/ in policy, nor in
> its upgrade-checklist, so I'm unsure where this comes from and what I
> should do about it. Do we consider it a bug to ship documentation in
> this directory? IMHO, we should either ship all non-english
> documentation in /u/s/d/LANG/$ll or none...

I would consider /usr/share/doc/$[pkgname}/${ll} a better choice. If the
language  is not  available, you  can  easily get  the documentation  in
English.
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