On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:13:20 +0100 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Well, it does mean that you might be lacking important information > > because the other changelog wouldn't be present on the system. > Instead of this, I'd rather see the shared files approach just dropped > completely, and /usr/share/doc/ files for “Multi-Arch: same” packages > be installed under /usr/share/doc/pkgname:arch/. This would solve all I agree with this for /usr/share but I don't think the shared files approach should be dropped entirely - /usr/include is one place where it will be very helpful and appears to be working properly already. > these problems in a clean way for the common case with just the two or > three mandated files (changelog, changelog.Debian and copyright), if > a package provides lots more files then they should be split anyway This works for shared library packages - it is -dev packages which still need the shared files approach. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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