Re: policy proposition for javadoc installation

[burton@openprivacy.org (Kevin A. Burton)]

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Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:

> Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> writes:
> > Why not use /usr/share/doc/javadoc instead?
> > I think it a better place, easier to find and more consistent.
> 
> Ola,
> 
>   The precedent is for /usr/share/javadoc.
> 
>   Consider /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info. Are there others?

Man and info are basically their own formats...  javadoc is just html.

but I see your point.

>   The directories under /usr/share/doc/ are all associated with particular
>   packages (counter examples?), whereas the /usr/share/javadoc,
>   /usr/share/man, and /usr/share/info directories contain a certain type of
>   documentation for groups of packages.
> 
>   p.s. A "general" name of apidoc would be bad.

agreed.

>   We'd only do that if we moved all of /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info in
>   there; otherwise what would be the point? And doing so would be like putting
>   a square peg into a round hole. Let's stick to javadoc.
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