Bug#149002: gcc-3.1: Dangling symlink in /usr(/share)/doc/gcc-3.1

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:52:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> <--  snip  -->
> 
> /usr/share/doc/gcc-3.1$ ls -la |grep info
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           28 Jun  2 21:07 gcc-3.1.1.info.gz -> ../../info/gcc-3.1.1.info.gz
> /usr/share/doc/gcc-3.1$ 
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> 1. This is a dangling symlink because the name of the file is
>    gcc-3.1.info.gz .
> 
> 2. Please don't use a relative path bcause otherwise the link is always
>    broken when you try to access it from /usr/doc/gcc-3.1 .

Policy states that symlinks within a top-level directory should be relative,
and in general this is a good idea.

I don't understand why this symlink needs to exist at all, since it is
actually easier to access the documentation in the info directory than in
the current directory (info gcc-3.1.1 vs. info --file=gcc-3.1.1.info.gz).

-- 
 - mdz


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