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Re: Bug#288415: base-files: /usr/info against Policy section 12.2



reassign 288415 dpkg
thanks

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Martin-Ãric Racine wrote:

> Package: base-files
> Version: 3.1.2
> Severity: important
> 
> Base-files installs a symbolic link /usr/info to /usr/share/info.
> This contradicts the Policy Manual's section 12.2 on info
> documentation.  This section uses SHOULD, so I have set this report
> as Important, instead of Severe.

Actually, it's dpkg who replaces the directory in base-files by a symlink.
I can't drop /usr/info in base-files until dpkg stops creating the symlink,
so this is a bug in dpkg.



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