Bug#630938: please make /usr/share/doc/multiarch-support/ a symlink

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

severity 630938 wishlist
retitle 630938 please share /usr/share/doc directories between libc6-* packages
thanks

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 02:12:35AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Package: multiarch-support
> Version: 2.13-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> multiarch-support depends on libc6, so /usr/share/doc/multiarch-support/
> can be a symlink to /usr/share/doc/libc6/ : we can and should save 150
> KB on every Debian system.

I don't think it is something possible. multiarch-support doesn't
depends on an exact version of libc6 (and it is actually the goal of
this package), so there is no way to ensure the changelog is the right
one.

As an example on amd64, you can have multiarch-support 2.13-7 with libc6
2.3.6-2 installed. In that case using the same changelog file is clearly
wrong.

> The same applies to the libc6-* packages.

For these one I agree it is something possible.

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