Bug#975941: add exception case to package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc if docs are linked to /usr/share/doc?
Apologies, I should have been clear in my first message that I'm not an
active Lintian maintainer (and thus wouldn't be the one to make any
changes to Lintian). Just providing some background from the Policy
perspective.
Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> writes:
> Of course, if the expectation is that all software should be patched to
> get its runtime documentation from /usr/share/doc, then Policy should be
> amended.
It's unlikely that the project would go in this direction, since this is a
consequence of the long-term goal to ensure that /usr/share/doc can be
deleted in its entirety if desired by the local admin, and thus its
deletion can't break any software. For example, I believe some embedded
systems hook into the package installation process to strip /usr/share/doc
files from the system because disk space may be very restricted.
Therefore, any files that installed software packages need at runtime have
to be installed outside of /usr/share/doc, with links to /usr/share/doc if
appropriate.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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